Quotes about Happiness

“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”

“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.”

“Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.”

“Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.”

“Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?”

“I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.”

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

“Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.”

“You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.”

“People tend to think I'm funny and fluffy, but I can switch on a sixpence from extreme happiness to utter despair. I'm aware that doesn't make it easy for people sometimes.”

“It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.”

“Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.”

“Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.”

“Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.”

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”

“I don't believe in God, in prayer, in going to temples begging God to give me and my family happiness. I am not asking everyone to be an atheist, but good thoughts are not spent in a temple.”

“The secret of happiness is something to do.”

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

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”

“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.”

“Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.”