Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Happiness.
Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.
Debra Messing
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Rabbi H. Schachtel
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
Arthur C. Brooks
Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
John L. Mason
Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.
Virginia Woolf
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. Godwin
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The way to fame goes thorough the palaces, the way to happiness does through the markets, the way to virtue goes through the deserts.
Leo Tolstoy
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley
When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.
Stephen Richards
Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.
Albert Camus
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Ambrose Bierce
When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.
Steve Maraboli
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
Robert Trout
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Chinese Proverb
If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make
Aristotle
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
William Burroughs
