Quotes about Happiness

“I don't want to put happiness off to the future, because you never know what life will bring.”

“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.”

“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”

“If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.”

“Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.”

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

“Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.”

“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”

“Joys divided are increased.”

“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”

“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”

“There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.”

“I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.”

“Happiness is very simple and minimal.”

“Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.”

“America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.”

“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.”

“Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.”

“Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.”

“My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.”

“Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.”