Happiness Quotes

Happiness is like time and space--we make and measure it ourselves; it is a fancy--as big, as little, as you please; just a thing of contrasts and comparisons, like health or strength or beauty or any other good--that wouldn't even be noticed but for sad personal experience of its opposite!--or its greater!

~ George Du Maurier

Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.

~ Albert Schweitzer

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.

~ Thornton Wilder

However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief that our work should make us happy. All societies have had work at their centre; ours is the first to suggest that it could be something more than a punishment or a penance. Ours is the first to imply that we should seek to work even in the absence of a financial imperative.

~ Alain De Botton

Once we got to eating, the idea of happiness returned to me. Not the feeling, the idea. Would a regular girl be happy simply eating a hot meal with a great deal of chew to it? Maybe happiness is a simple thing. Maybe it's as simple as the salty taste of pork, and the vast deal of chewing in it, and how, when the chew is gone, you can still scrape at the bone with your bottom teeth and suck at the marrow.

~ Franny Billingsley

No other thing or no other person is going to make me happy in life, I just have to do that myself.

~ Greg Page

If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.

~ Paul Brunton

It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

~ Laura Lippman

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

~ Richard Rodríguez

When you've succeeded, you'd say:'Indeed I'd to go through those hell before fit into all of this happiness.

~ Toba Beta

Das Glück ist nicht in den Dingen, die wir besitzen, sondern in den Dingen, die zu besitzen wir glauben.

~ Johannes Mario Simmel

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

~ Jane Austen

Emmy has embarked on her journey to enrich the world with smiles. They are free, healthy, and often, very contagious.

~ Emmy Swain

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. (The Striding Place)

~ Gertrude Atherton

Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with essence; till we shine,Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. BeholdThe clear religion of heaven!

~ John Keats

We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what your phone, food, or friends can fix, you will be in big trouble.

~ Evan Sutter

If you stand right at the edge of the night sky, some place where one o’clock leaves to meet two, the breeze will carry your words up to the stars. And they’ll swallow your secrets until its time to hand them over to the truths in the sky- the ones that draw maps in the black. They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.

~ Marlen Komar

We are souls, eternal and perfect, captains of our mystic ships: gods and goddesses of our universe. We are beautiful, we pearls of grit. We, the ember of everything. Our uniqueness IS what makes us special, and the expression of it is our gift to the rest of us. In order to feel happy and fulfilled, we must honour our own personal brand of creativity... let it out into the world... BE who we came here to BE.

~ Angie Karan

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

~ Aldous Huxley

One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;For all such vain wishes in him were preventedBy a fortunate habit of being contented.

~ Jane Taylor

I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.

~ Willa Cather

Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily?

~ Hafiz

To be happy is to be a little bit sad for it is the negative that balances the positive. What is the use of being happy if there is no sadness?

~ I A Night Owl

I’m not good enough for Duke.” “I’m good enough for you.

~ Feng Nong

Because what’s lifeWithout happinessAnd where’s happinessWithout risk

~ Dennis Sharpe

When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.

~ Roman Payne

In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.

~ A. Edward Newton

I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.

~ Nathaniel Branden

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

~ Marcel Proust

When you choose your own way, you lose your happiness

~ Sunday Adelaja

People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness.

~ Lina Dimitrova

Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.

~ Charles Bukowski

You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.

~ Truth Devour

Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.

~ Truth Devour

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

~ Anthony Liccione

Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Totally present in this moment for you.

~ Truth Devour

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

~ Vironika Tugaleva