Quotes on Happiness

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.