Happiness Quotes

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

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

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

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.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

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.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!