What Is Happiness Quotes

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.

The Lord's way is the only way for us to experience enduring happiness. His way brings sustained comfort to our souls and perennial peace to our homes.

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is.

The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.

Smile... it irritates those who wish to destroy you.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

Money can't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Bugatti than on a bicycle.

Success doesn't bring happiness. Only material stuff like money, cars and iPods can do that. And I've already got all that. So I have to find other ways to amuse myself.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me.

Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

A 5 letter word for happiness: MONEY.

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.