Happiness Quotes

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
– Richard Eyre
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
– Joni Mitchell
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
– Dan Savage
I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.
– Gisele Bundchen
I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
– Arizona Muse
I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
– Vanessa Paradis
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
– Nana Mouskouri
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– Victoria Woodhull
I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'
– Lea Michele
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
– Alfred Day Hershey
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
– Pierre Corneille
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.
– Richard Eyre
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
– Giorgio Armani
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
– Pratibha Patil
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
– Victoria Woodhull
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
– Lillie Langtry
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
– Taylor Caldwell
I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.
– Princess Margaret
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
– J. D. Salinger
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
– Marc Webb
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
– Linda Evans
I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
– Amy Adams
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
– Maurice Sendak
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.
– Hugh Laurie
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
– William James
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
– Paul Sweeney
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
– Dan Savage
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
– William Samuel Johnson
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
– Oswald Chambers
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
– Wendell Willkie
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
– K. D. Lang
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
– Olympia Brown
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
– Samuel Johnson
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
– Abu Bakr
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
– Ovid
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
– Rosalia de Castro
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
– Henry Drummond
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
– Robert Mapplethorpe
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.
– Eugenio Montale
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
– George A. Smith
Happiness seems made to be shared.
– Pierre Corneille
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
– Marcel Proust
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
– Andrei Platonov
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
– Adam Smith
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
– Joseph Butler
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
– Marquis de Sade
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
– Garth Brooks
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
– Julia Roberts
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
– Billy Wilder
Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
– Bar Refaeli
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
– Martin Yan
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
– Joyce Grenfell
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.
– Julie Christie
Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness is only real when shared.
– Christopher McCandless
Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.
– James Van Der Zee
Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
– Ellen Pompeo
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
– Zoe Saldana
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
– Theodor Adorno
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
– Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
– Daphne du Maurier
Happiness is no respecter of persons.
– Stephen Fry
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
– Thomas Merton
Happiness is no laughing matter.
– Richard Whately
Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.
– James Allen
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
– Benjamin Spock
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
– Marquis de Sade
Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
– Henry Van Dyke
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
– Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
– Frank McCourt
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
– Napoleon Hill
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
– Marcel Proust
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
– Dennis Prager
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
– Logan P. Smith
Happiness is always a coincidence.
– Jose Bergamin
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
– Robert Orben
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
– Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
– Jane Porter
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
– Polly Toynbee
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
– Aldous Huxley
Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.
– Hermann Hesse
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
– Gustave Flaubert
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
– Valerie Bertinelli
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
– William S. Burroughs
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
– Douglas Horton
Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.
– John Harrigan
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
– Richard Ford
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
– Richard Dreyfuss
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
– Jose Marti
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
– Tom Wilson
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
– Joseph Butler
Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
– Barry Sanders
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
– Marguerite Gardiner
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
– August Strindberg
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
– John Stossel
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
– David O. McKay
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
– George Washington