Quotes about Happiness

“I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.”

“True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.”

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”

“I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.”

“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”

“We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.”

“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.”

“Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.”

“May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.”

“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.”

“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”

“'Happiness' is a pointless goal.”

“Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.”

“Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom.”

“I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.”

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”

“Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.”

“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”

“If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.”

“Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.”

“One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.”