1,043 Quotes Regarding Happiness


Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo Derek

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre Maurois

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Bo Bennett

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
P. J. O'Rourke

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Harold Kushner

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather