Happiness Quotes

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

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

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.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

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.

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

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.