Selected happiness quotes

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

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

6. 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.

7. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

8. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

9. A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

10. 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.

11. 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.

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

13. I loved doing problems in school.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

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

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. Happiness depends upon ourselves.

22. Happiness is a sort of action.

23. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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

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

26. Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.

27. 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.

28. It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

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

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

31. 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.

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

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

34. 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.

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

36. 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.

37. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

38. 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.

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

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

41. Contented wi' little and cantie wi' mair.

42. Our god is the wonderful law of creation, whose amazing unity of all things shows itself if wonderful flowers, in growing trees, in new born children, in the secrets of a mother, in the growth of our people, in work and accomplishment and creation, in life itself. It is the joy we have in everything. How beautiful everything is. Do you feel the same way? I am so happy to be alive.

43. At this good news, so great The Devil's pleasure grew, That, with a joyful swish, he rent The hole where his tail came through.

44. A man who has both knowledge and virtue is happy both here and in the Hereafter!

45. With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.

46. The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.

47. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

48. In her own quiet way, Suhana brought smiles and joy into our house even before she was born.

49. In just the last few months Sharon was beginning to come into her own. She never cared about being beautiful. She never even really cared about acting. She just wanted to love and be loved. And have her baby. I know that if she'd lived and had the baby everything would have been different for her. Because that is what Sharon really wanted. She was just a little girl from Texas who was so incredibly beautiful that she got swept up in all of the Hollywood nonsense. But all she ever wanted was what every woman wants - a man to love and a baby of her own. I can't believe that the murderers knew her. To know Sharon, to really know her, was to love her. There is just no way that anyone who knew her could have hurt her so.

50. Randy Peone: It's a good day to be indigenous!

51. Happy are they that go to bed with grave music.

52. Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

53. Call no man unhappy until he is married.

54. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.

55. What is the Great Vehicle? What is the mode of procedure of the Bodhisattva path? We begin with the topic of the altruistic intention to achieve enlightenment in which one values others more than oneself. The Great Vehicle path requires the vast motivation of a Bodhisattva, who, not seeking just his or her welfare, takes on the burden of bringing about the welfare of all sentient beings. When a person generate this attitude, they enter within the Great Vehicle, and as long as it has not been generated, one cannot be counted among those of the Great Vehicle. This attitude really has great power; it, of course, is helpful for people practicing religion, but it also is helpful for those who are just concerned with the affairs of this lifetime. The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

56. I believe that at every level of society - familial, tribal, national and international - the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.

57. Some say I am a good person, some say I am a charlatan - I am just a monk... I never asked people like Richard Gere to come, but it is foolish to stop them. I have Tibetans, Indians, backpackers, Aids patients, religious people, politicians, actors and princesses. My attitude is to give everyone some of my time. If I can contribute in any way to their happiness, that makes me happy.

58. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

59. 'He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. The only relation of consciousness to happiness is gratitude: in which lies its incomparable dignity.'

60. 'Psychology repeats in the case of properties what was done to property. It expropriates the individual by allocating him its happiness.'

61. Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? O sweet content! Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex'd? O punishment!

62. Paradise itself were dim And joyless, if not shared with him!

63. And I don't want to question or even celebrate all the joy you took and then gave back too late.

64. She lunched on papaya poo poo or mango mu mu or some other fruity foo foo bursting with overripe tropican vowels.

65. 'I don't have fun. Actually, I had fun once. In 1962. I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin cough medicine and went in the back of a 1961 powder-blue Lincoln Continental to a James Brown concert with some Mexican friends of mine. I haven't had fun since. It's not a word I like. It's like Volkswagens or bell-bottoms, or patchouli oil or bean sprouts. It rubs me up the wrong way. I might go out and have an educational and entertaining evening, but I don't have fun.'

66. Forse, se tu gustassi anco una volta La millesima parte de la gioie Che gusta un cor amato riamando, Diresti, ripentita, sospirando: Perduto e tutto il tempo Che in amar non si spende.

67. By the winding stream we shall lie and dream We'll make dreams come true if we want them to Yes all will come play the pipes and drum Sing a happy song and we'll sing along.

68. I'm in heaven, I'm in heaven I'm in heaven when you smile, when you smile.

69. The warm look of radiance on your face And your heart beating close to mine And the evening fading in the candle glow This must be what it's all about Oh this must be what it's all about This must be what paradise is like So quiet in here. So peaceful in here So quiet in here, yeah, so peaceful in here.

70. Le paradis terrestre est ou je suis.

71. Usez, n'abusez point; le sage ainsi l'ordonne. Je fuis egalement Epictete et Petrone. L'abstinence ou l'exces ne fit jamais d'heureux.

72. Nous cherchons tous le bonheur, mais sans savoir ou, comme les ivrognes qui cherchent leur maison, sachant confusement qu'ils en ont une.

73. L'homme doit etre content, dit-on; mais de quoi?

74. I decided to be happy, it is excellent for one's health.

75. An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo's twang.

76. I can Do all that angels can. I enjoy like them, Like men besides, like men in light secluded, Enjoying angels.

77. In this painting, I was in fact in quest for a certain hour, which was and which remains always the most beautiful hour of the day in Moscow. The sun is already low and has reached its highest force, which it has searched all the day, to which it has aspired all the day. [:] The sun dissolves all Moscow in a spot which, as a frenzied tuba, makes entered into vibration all the inner being, the whole soul. [:] Rendering this hour seemed the biggest, the most impossible of the happiness for an artist. These impressions renewed every sunny day. They brought me a joy which shattered me until the bottom of the soul, and which reached until ecstasy.

78. If money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it.

79. (Funnels a beer). Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good!

80. Good news! I saw a dog today!

81. What a thing it is to lie there all day in the fine breeze, with the pine needles dropping on one, only to return to the hotel at night so hungry that the dinner, however homely, is a fete, and the menu finer reading than the best poetry in the world! Yet we are to leave all this for the glare and blaze of Nice and Monte Carlo; which is proof enough that one cannot become really acclimated to happiness. (10 September 1902) in the village of Cavalaire, France.

82. Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joys inclined, Lawless, winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from every mind.

83. My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

84. Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.

85. Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight Of the Valleys of Dream.

86. I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a-cold; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old.

87. Deemest thou labor Only is earnest? Grave is all beauty, Solemn is joy.

88. Behold, within the leafy shade, Those bright blue eggs together laid! On me the chance-discovered sight Gleamed like a vision of delight.

89. Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion! Thou, linnet! in thy green array, Presiding spirit here to-day, Dost lead the revels of the May; And this is thy dominion.

90. He sang of love, with quiet blending, Slow to begin, and never ending; Of serious faith, and inward glee; That was the song,- the song for me!

91. Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind.

92. Lives there a man whose sole delights Are trivial pomp and city noise, Hardening a heart that loathes or slights What every natural heart enjoys?

93. Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel- I feel it all. Oh evil day! if I were sullen While the Earth herself is adorning, This sweet May-morning.

94. HUMANAE VITAE tradendae munus gravissimum, ex quo coniuges liberam et consciam Deo Creatori tribuunt operam, magnis semper ipsos affecit gaudiis, quae tamen aliquando non paucae difficultates et angustiae sunt secutae.

95. Always contented with his life, and with his dinner, and his wife.

96. I need more than a bedtime story, I need more than a youth group God.I am looking for a savior. A guide. An existential answer to my questions about purpose and meaning. I want true fulfilment in my Christian faith. I am looking for joy.

97. Politics is the art of human happiness.

98. Playing shows every night....DUHHHH!

99. 'You know how when a dog is crippled you put his back legs in a wheelchair? I think Willie the Jackass really puts a smile on kids' faces. I drag the ass-end of the costume around the park cause I ain't got nobody to fill that spot. The back legs are crippled.' (from 'Willie the Jackass')

100. It is in the exceeding rapture of delight in the deepe search of knowledge, none knoweth better than thyselfe, sweet Mathew, that maketh men manfully indure th'extremes incident to that Herculean labour.