Quotes about Happiness

“Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

“We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.”

“My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.”

“Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.”

“I don't know the true meaning of happiness.”

“Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.”

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

“Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.”

“Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.”

“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”

“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”

“To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.”

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.”

“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”

“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.”

“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”

“Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”

“I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.”

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”

“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”