Quotes on Happiness

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.