Quotes about Happiness

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will.

To feel love and give love - it's the greatest feeling there is.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

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

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all. —SIR

That was a wrong thing for you to say, that you would have had nothing to try for. If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for. Some can be happy. I seemed to see that more clearly than ever, when I was the most wretched. I can hardly think how I could have borne the trouble, if that feeling had not come to me to make strength.

Sometimes Maggie thought she could have been contented with absorbing fancies; if she could have had all Scott's novels and all Byron's poems!—then, perhaps, she might have found happiness enough to dull her sensibility to her actual daily life. And yet they were hardly what she wanted. She could make dream-worlds of her own, but no dream-world would satisfy her now.

Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.

Everyone has wondered if his or her life will ultimately be a happy one.