Happiness Quotes

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence

Aristotle

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

John Mason Brown

It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.

Stephen Richards

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Harlan Coben

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.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Anthony Hopkins

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Bertrand Russell

The universe is full of magical things to be manifested with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

Diane Lane

We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making.

Stephen Richards

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Fred Adler

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Daisaku Ikeda

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Albert Einstein

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way!

Steve Maraboli

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

Polly Toynbee

There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.

Paulo Coelho

With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last day may flock together in hopes of seeing each other damned, will be disappointed, and obliged to rest content With the

Benjamin Franklin