Quotes about Happiness

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”

“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.”

“Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.”

“When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.”

“The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.”

“There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.”

“Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.”

“Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.”

“Honestly, just live your life to the fullest. Laugh a lot, love and find your true happiness.”

“People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.”

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

“Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.”

“If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.”

“When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.”

“To buy happiness is to sell soul.”

“Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.”

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”

“A good education is another name for happiness.”