Quotes about Happiness

“I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.”

“There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.”

“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”

“A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.”

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

“The power of cosmetics and the effect they can have on one's happiness and confidence is very real.”

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

“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.”

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

“Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.”

“I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.”

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

“If you want to be happy, be.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

“We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel.”

“You can be happy where you are.”

“A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.”

“There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.”

“What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.”

“Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness.”

“Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.”