Quotes about Happiness

“I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.”

“Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.”

“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”

“If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.”

“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”

“My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.”

“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.”

“I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice.”

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”

“Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.”

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.”

“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?”

“There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.”

“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.”

“People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.”

“Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”

“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”

“You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.”

“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.”

“Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.”