Quotes about Happiness

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”

“I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.”

“Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.”

“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”

“Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in which we incessantly seek pleasure because we cannot find happiness.”

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”

“If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.”

“I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.”

“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”

“Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

“There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.”

“This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.”

“One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.”

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

“Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.”

“Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.”

“I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.”