Quotes about Happiness

“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”

“Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.”

“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”

“Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.”

“Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.”

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

“I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.”

“Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.”

“Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.”

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”

“Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.”

“Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which is why we are far more powerful than ever before but we don't seem to be much happier.”

“Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.”

“Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.”

“Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.”

“In my opinion happiness is nothing but satisfaction - satisfaction through work, thoughts and accomplishing our mission and vision.”

“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”

“Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.”

“Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.”

“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”

“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.”