Quotes on Happiness

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.