happiness quotes

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.