Quotes on Happiness

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they're healthy and they're happy.

It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

My beauty ethos? Well, I'd love to tell you it's something like 'less is more,' but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up - when I'm happy, I'm at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.