1,043 Quotes Regarding Happiness


Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.
James Allen

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
John Lubbock

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Julia Ward Howe

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.
Paul Ryan

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Theodor Adorno

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
Theodor Adorno

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Walters

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
Conor Oberst

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
William Feather

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
Alanis Morissette

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
Olivia Goldsmith

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
Dionne Warwick

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Bernard Meltzer