1,043 Quotes Regarding Happiness


Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
Guy Finley

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
Richard Ford

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
Kitty Kelley

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
Aron Ralston

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
Claire Forlani

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
Nadia Giosia

You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.
Andrew Sullivan

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.
John Buchanan Robinson

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
Donatella Versace

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
Pierre Salinger

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
James Payn

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
Richard Dreyfuss

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.
Thomas Traherne

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Thomas Traherne

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
Richard Cobden

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
Park Geun-hye

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac D'Israeli

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
Deborah Norville

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.
Colin Hay