Happiness Quotes

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

With pleasure I write my name in your Album. Ere long some younger man will be more happy to confer his name upon you. Don't allow it, Mary, until fully assured that he is worthy of the happiness.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.

Joy is fleeting, whereas true happiness and calm can come to us only after intense pain, when we have confronted ourselves in the mirror of our souls and understood the self.

Once an individual severs his emotional and physical bondage, he is on the road to freedom, happiness and peace of mind.

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.