Quotes on Happiness

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.