Happiness Quotations | Page 4

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.

There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Happiness is definitely a priority in our household. That the kids are happy and everybody is comfortable. Self-esteem is very important.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.

Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.