Quotes on What Is Happiness

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.

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.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.