Quotes about Happiness

“False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.”

“Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.”

“I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.”

“Happiness is not merely a word. It is a state of mind.”

“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”

“My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.”

“With trans people, I just think you can't help the way you are born, though. You know, it's DNA, it's genetics. I'm just glad people can do things about their own happiness. I think this thought process that they're trying to wipe out women is a bit ridiculous - it's a minority of people.”

“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”

“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”

“This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.”

“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”

“There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.”

“I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.”

“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”

“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”

“It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.”

“Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.”

“Sometimes you need to take a moment and take a step back to think about what you are fighting for and if it make sense for your long-term happiness.”

“The happiness of society is the end of government.”

“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.”