Quotes about Happiness

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

“You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.”

“Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.”

“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.”

“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”

“Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.”

“We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.”

“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”

“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.”

“I love dancing, and I dance for my own happiness.”

“A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.”

“Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality.”

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”

“Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.”

“Happiness does not consist in self-love.”

“The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.”

“Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.”

“How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.”

“What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.”

“Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.”