Quotes about Happiness

“Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.”

“Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.”

“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.”

“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.”

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

“And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.”

“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”

“While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.”

“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.”

“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”

“I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.”

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”