Explore Quotes on Happiness

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.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.

Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

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 want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy, although in my DNA there's more of a depressed person.

Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.

Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.

Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.

Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.

The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.

My happiness is very fragile.

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

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