Quotes about Happiness
Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.
- Deepak Chopra
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.
- Marianne Williamson
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
- Thomas a Kempis
And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.
- Charles Dickens
If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.
- Marianne Williamson
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
- Thomas Jefferson
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
- Samuel Johnson
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.
- Samuel Johnson
Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
- Thich Nhat Hanh