Quotes about Happiness

“To forget oneself is to be happy.”

“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.”

“I didn't understand at first why I couldn't meet a guy for so long. But as time goes by, I understood why actresses usually get married late. I think their hearts for work become bigger and happiness from the work takes the most space in their hearts.”

“The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.”

“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”

“When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.”

“Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.”

“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.”

“I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.”

“I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.”

“Happiness is no laughing matter.”

“Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.”

“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.”

“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”

“People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.”

“Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly.”

“To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.”

“Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.”

“Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.”

“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”

“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”