Quotes on Happiness

When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.

Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.