Quotes on Happiness

Feeling very happy - why? An explanation is needed. No, happiness needs no explanation, happiness is its own explanation. God is creating because that is the only way he can be happy, that is the only way he loves, that is the only way he sings, that's the only way he can be at all. Creation is his innermost nature, no why is needed.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.