Quotes on Happiness

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Live with the objective of being happy.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.