Quotes about Happiness

“My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.”

“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”

“Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.”

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”

“An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.”

“If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.”

“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.”

“My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.”

“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”

“Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.”

“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”

“I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.”

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”

“There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.”

“And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.”

“Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm and, I think, should elicit an emotion of happiness or of celebration or of sadness or of sorrow or of love or laughter, whatever.”

“The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.”

“Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.”

“More than my own happiness, it's my mother's happiness that makes me happy.”

“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”