Quotes on Happiness

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

One life is worth no more or less than any other

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.