Happiness Quotes

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

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.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

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.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

You find happiness where you find it.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

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.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

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

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.