Happiness Quotes

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Josh Billings

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Gustav Jung

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Chuck Palahniuk

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.

Olivia Goldsmith

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

Charles Dickens

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

Benjamin Hoff

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

James Madison

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Samuel Johnson

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Sophocles

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

Walt Whitman

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Henry Ford

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Mahatma Gandhi

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

Steve Kerr

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

Justin Long

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

Albert Camus