Quotes about Happiness

Happiness extends just as far as study extends, and the more someone studies, the happier he is.

On the other hand, because fortune is needed as an addition, some hold good fortune to be identical with Happiness: which it is not, for even this in excess is a hindrance, and perhaps then has no right to be called good fortune since it is good only in so far as it contributes to Happiness.

Again he urged that that is most choiceworthy which we choose, not by reason of, or with a view to, anything further; and that Pleasure is confessedly of this kind because no one ever goes on to ask to what purpose he is pleased, feeling that Pleasure is in itself choiceworthy. Again, that when added to any other good it makes it more choiceworthy; as, for instance, to actions of justice, or perfected self-mastery; and good can only be increased by itself.

It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

I don't think it's that hard [to lead a Christian life]. To me it's fun. We have joy and happiness.

Life is a mirror, smile at it:-)

The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.

Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.