Quotes about Happiness

“Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn't you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.”

“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”

“I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.”

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

“Obviously, there will be different character traits in the dressing room, but I'm there to bring happiness and a smile.”

“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.”

“Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.”

“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”

“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.”

“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”

“Happiness is alluring but ungraspable, which is perhaps its ultimate appeal. Who'd really want to have it all the time?”

“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”

“For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.”

“I think happiness really happens when you least expect it: it's when you're not really thinking about it, when you're not trying to achieve it, when you're not trying to get the perfect holiday, the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect existence.”

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

“It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.”

“As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.”

“In 'Mad Men,' we watch a group of people who live in a prosperous society that offers happiness and order like never before in history and yet are full of anxiety and unease. They feel there is something more, something beyond. And they feel stuck.”

“Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.”

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”

“I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.”