Quotes
Quotes about Happiness
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
There is no fundamental difference between man and the lower animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
