Happiness Quotes

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

~ Marissa Mayer

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

~ Euripides

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

~ Denis Waitley

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

~ James E. Faust

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

~ Taylor Swift

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

~ George Sand

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

~ Tony Hawk

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

~ Marla Gibbs

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

~ Ric Ocasek

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

~ C. S. Lewis

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

~ Victor Hugo

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

~ George Sand

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

~ Amy Chua

What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.'

~ Kylie Jenner

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

~ Christie Brinkley

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.

~ Sylvie Meis

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

~ Alana Stewart

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

~ Henri Matisse

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

~ Henry Ford

We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

~ Ben Carson

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

~ Christopher Hampton

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

~ Linda Thompson

The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.

~ Meghan Daum

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

~ Frida Lyngstad

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

~ Langston Hughes

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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.

~ Steven Pinker

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

~ Samuel Johnson

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

~ Dennis Prager

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

~ Bertrand Russell

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

~ William Godwin

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

~ George Washington

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.

~ Kim Jong-Un

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

~ Dave Grohl