Quotes about Happiness

“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”

“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”

“It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.”

“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”

“The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.”

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”

“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.”

“No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.”

“Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.”

“Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.”

“Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.”

“To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.”

“I get way too much happiness from good food.”

“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”

“It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.”

“There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.”

“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

“From being in Tibet and being around Tibetans, I feel like I've learned so much more about what brings a person happiness, about what actually brings myself happiness.”

“Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.”