Happiness Quotations | Page 6

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

I've had an absolutely charmed life in every aspect of it. I do for my job what I would do for a hobby if it wasn't my job. Half the secret of happiness, I'm ecstatically happily married with three great kids, you know. It's been a blessed life.

Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about.

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others

When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for 'Popworld' and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.