Happiness Quotations | Page 3

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way...

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

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.

I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

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

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

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.

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.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.

I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.

Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'

It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice.

There are two things that give me perfect happiness - doing the perfect shot and travelling. I get stressed, really stressed by the fact that there is just so much to see and I am not going to live long enough to visit all the places I want to.

Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

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.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me!

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.