Happiness Quotes

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

P. J. O'Rourke

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Bryant McGill

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Jonathan Edwards

With Cosmic Ordering life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

Stephen Richards

Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.

Jane Austen

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Herman Hesse

What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that narrow space with the sky its ceiling room enough for the worship of God in the most delicate of his works and in the most sublime? A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in -what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Victor Hugo

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

Antonio Gala

Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there.

Steve Maraboli

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

Stephen Richards

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

Thor Heyerdahl

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad

Thomas Jefferson

In the autumn of your years don't make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life.

Stephen Richards

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

Islom Karimov

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

William Lyon Phelps

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine