Quotes about Happiness

“There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.”

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”

“My priority is my happiness.”

“You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.”

“Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.”

“Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.”

“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”

“I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.”

“Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.”

“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”

“I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.”

“The days of the revolution now give place to the period of regular organization, liberty, and prosperity, which that revolution guarantees. Thus, when everything concurs for the pacification of internal troubles, the threats of the enemies of France must, in the face of the public happiness, appear even to themselves insensate.”

“Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.”

“The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.”

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”

“Happiness is an inside job.”

“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”

“Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.”

“Happiness doesn't just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the 'ultimate currency' of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all.”

“Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.”