Happiness Quotes

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Jilly Cooper

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

John Caudwell

The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.

John Caudwell

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Johnny Carson

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Julian Casablancas

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Julie Christie

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Jonathan Davis

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

Jamie Foxx

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.

Julian Fellowes

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

Jack Gleeson

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

John Gunther

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

John Mason Good

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Joyce Grenfell

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Joyce Grenfell

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

James Hillman

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

James Hillman