Quotes on Pursuit Of Happiness

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.