Happiness Quotations | Page 5

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.

Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.

Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

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

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.

I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.

People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

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

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.