Quotes on Happiness

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.