Happiness Quotes

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

Bloodshed, gentlemen, no doubt is lamentable. I have seen some of it--more perhaps than many of those who talk about it with such levity. But there are worse things than bloodshed, even on an extreme scale. . . . The trampling down of law and order which, under the conditions of a civilised state, assure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--all this would be worse than bloodshed.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen [laughter]-that is true happiness.

I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you off, you just wait in the shade until they come around again.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Even if it's just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.

I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.