happiness quotes

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

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.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I don’t have many sad days.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

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

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

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

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

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

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.