Happiness Quotes - Page 3

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

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

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

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

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

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.

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

I'd sing for any friend's happiness. I don't have to get drunk to do so.

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

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.

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

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.