Quotes about Happiness

“Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.”

“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”

“Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!”

“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”

“Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.”

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

“A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.”

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

“It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.”

“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.”

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”

“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”

“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.”

“The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.”

“If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.”

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”

“Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.”

“Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.”