Happiness Quotes

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

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

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

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.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.