Happiness Quotes

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

William Hall

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

William James

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

William Samuel Johnson

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Walter Savage Landor

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

W. Somerset Maugham

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.

Wesley Schultz

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare

Happiness is an inside job.

William Arthur Ward

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

William Wilberforce

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.

Yaya DaCosta

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

Yoko Ono

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Zhuangzi

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Zhuangzi

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

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

Shahrukh Khan

People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and...

Sheryl WuDunn

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

Sergey Brin