Quotes on Happiness

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."