Happiness Quotes

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

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

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

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

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.