Happiness Quotes

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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

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

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.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Love is trembling happiness.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

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

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .