Quotes about Happiness

“What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.”

“I never had any idea how much happiness flaking on the sofa and doing nothing could bring.”

“In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.”

“Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.”

“The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.”

“There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.”

“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.”

“Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.”

“I am extremely satisfied and content. I am happy and I think happiness is enough for everything.”

“God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.”

“I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.”

“I think you need to have a day or two when you treat yourself, because it brings happiness, it stimulates your mind.”

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”

“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”

“Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”

“I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.”

“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”

“Life happens fast. You have to have a Plan B, a backup plan and really figure out a way to have different avenues of income and just avenues of happiness. That is what is really important, being at peace and having that happiness.”

“Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”