Quotes on Happiness

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.'

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.