Happiness Quotes

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Red Skelton

The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away

William Shakespeare

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Lafcadio Hearn

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

Richard Bach

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English Proverb

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Dennis Prager

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Oswald Chambers

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Sigmund Freud

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

Hal Sparks

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Epictetus

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Arthur Rubinstein

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

Horatio Alger

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

Gisele Bundchen

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Julia Roberts

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

Evangeline Lilly

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

Josh Lucas

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Amy Lowell

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Herman Hesse

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

Adam Clarke

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

Adrian Grenier