Happiness Quotes

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

~ Gretchen Rubin

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

~ Carrie Underwood

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

~ Alastair Campbell

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

~ Lucan

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

~ Tsai Ing-Wen

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.

~ Mike Crapo

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

~ Samuel Johnson

Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about.

~ Clementa C. Pinckney

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

~ Christina Milian

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

~ Peabo Bryson

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.

~ Matt Haig

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

~ Ausonius

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

~ Thomas Carlyle

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

~ John Mayer

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

~ Brandon Boyd

Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it.

~ Michael Douglas

It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.

~ Gretchen Rubin

I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

~ Lisa Murkowski

The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

~ Samuel Chase

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

~ Marguerite Duras

It's all about balance, and I have so much happiness in my career and am fortunate to travel the world and see so many amazing things - it will also be nice to be anchored to something grounded and in the same place. Raising a family will be a wonderful part of that.

~ Meghan Markle

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

~ Stendhal

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

~ Tom Stoppard

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.

~ Win Butler

Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.

~ Park Bo-Gum

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

~ James Smithson

Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don't get me started on happiness, or habits, or children's literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it.

~ Gretchen Rubin

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

~ Sidney Sheldon

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

~ Jennifer Grant

There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one of them. If you're convinced that it's the key to your happiness, there are routes open to you, whether with the help of modern medical science, marrying into a readymade one, or through fostering and adoption.

~ Mariella Frostrup

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

~ Suze Orman