happiness quotes

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Fun is good.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

I think that success is having fun.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Life well spent is long.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Men want to make women happy.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.