happiness quotes

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

I always wanted a family.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

I think everyone should be with who they love.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

We were poor, but we smiled.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.