1,043 Quotes Regarding Happiness


It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
Polly Toynbee

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.
Maurice Sendak

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
Maurice Sendak

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max Planck

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
Miuccia Prada

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Clara Barton

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
Brandon Boyd

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
Christina Milian

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
William Law

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
Isabelle Eberhardt

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
William J. H. Boetcker

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Anthony Trollope

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton Wilder

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
Hugh Laurie

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
Hugh Laurie

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
Dennis Prager

Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.
John Harrigan