What Is Happiness Quotes

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.

You're never fully dressed without a smile.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

He who laughs.....lasts.

To be happy, make other people happy.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

Happiness is.....finding two olives in your martini when youre hungry.

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness

Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing!

Your success, your life, your happiness. Don't let mean people bring that down.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Happiness is when you finally connect your mind to your body.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

It is your right to be happy. This is what you were made for. And if you will not resist, happiness will find a way to pour from your heart and fill your days.

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.