Happiness Quotes

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Russell M. Nelson

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Tryon Edwards

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Paulo Coelho

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

Paul Ryan

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.

Irving Babbitt

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Wayne Dyer

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Wayne Dyer

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Elsa Schiaparelli

You can forget trying to climb the success ladder, all you will ever need in life is brought to you in the Cosmic Ordering elevator.

Stephen Richards

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Michael Novak

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Steve Maraboli

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Plato

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you.

Steve Maraboli

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Jodi Picoult

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb