Happiness Quotes

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

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.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

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.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

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

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

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