Life Quotes

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

~ William Morris

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

~ James E. Faust

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

~ Thomas Jefferson

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

~ Brad Garrett

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

~ Ayn Rand

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

~ Drew Barrymore

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles that's the key to happiness.

~ Herbie Hancock

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

~ P. T. Barnum

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

~ Khalil Gibran

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

~ C. S. Lewis

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

~ Bertrand Russell

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

~ Vanilla Ice

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

~ Nicki Minaj

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.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

~ Karen Finerman

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

~ Princess Diana

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

~ Karl Ove Knausgaard

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

~ Nicki Minaj

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

~ Martha Beck

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

~ Debra Messing

The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life.

~ Cesare Beccaria

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

~ Maria Montessori

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

~ Mel Gibson

Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

~ Holly Holm

Anyone who starts piercing the bubble of happiness, get 'em out of your life.

~ Robert Kraft

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

~ Alice Walker

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

~ Aristotle

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

~ Albert Camus

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.

~ Lilly Singh

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.

~ Winifred Holtby

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

~ Martin Seligman

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

~ Quentin Crisp