1,113 Happiness Quotes

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.

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.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on.

I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.

Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

What is life without the radiance of love?

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

The will of man is his happiness.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather - all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Happiness and beauty are by-products.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.

Not by appointment do we meet delight or joy; They heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses[.]

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.]

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalised.

It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn't come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words 'bliss,' 'passion,' and 'rapture' -- words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

That's when I asked her where was that actress She said 'That was somebody else' And then I asked her why she looked so happy now She said 'I finally like myself, at last I like myself.'

Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man Who could ask for anything more?

'Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea,' said Japhy. 'Remember that book I told you about; the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.'

I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road . . . Well, I can't even believe this is work.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

'To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.'

Summer - summer - summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical. . . . smoke grass.

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep an' it keeps on laughin'.

What we will be seeking ... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?'

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

If you want to be happy, be.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

In the midst of the word he was trying to say, In the midst of his laughter and glee, He had softly and suddenly vanished away - For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness: is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.

'If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.'

If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

: I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.

Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry: we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

This, and no other, is justice: - to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend!

The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that 'no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering.' That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet -- in the wrong universe.

Don't worry about anything... Go out and have a good time.

As Tammie glow'red, amazed, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain, But the first joys of our heart Come never back again!

Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing 'have I labored,' neither has my exile been 'in vain.'

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.