Quotes on Happiness

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Account no man happy till he dies.

If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

Find your happiness in yourself.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

Real bliss is to have peace of mind.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments of happiness are just the punctuation marks of our personal sagas. The narrative is written every day in the small, the simple, and the common. In your tiny choices, in these tiny changes. In the unconsidered. The overlooked. The discarded. The reclaimed.

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.