Happiness Quotes - Page 5

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

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

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

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

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Happiness is only real when shared.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.