Happiness Quotes

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

Islom Karimov

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Leslie Caron

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

Elizabeth George

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Sidney Sheldon

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

William Shakespeare

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

J. Donald Walters

Seven Deadly SinsWealth without workPleasure without conscienceScience without humanityKnowledge without characterPolitics without principleCommerce without moralityWorship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Margaret Oliphant

Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Kahlil Gibran

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porter

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

LaoTzu

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Walter Savage Landor

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Walter Savage Landor

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Jilly Cooper

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Richard Dreyfuss

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Ogden Nash