Happiness Quotes

“I dunno, you get to a point in life where you'd settle for life, liberty and the pursuit of can't complain.”

“Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.”

“There is a question I sometimes put to myself, and I suppose everyone does in his secret moments. When, if ever, am I actually happy? There are two situations in which I have unexpectedly found myself thinking, "Observe, I am perfectly happy." One of them is when I am reading a good detective story and feel I am about to go to sleep. The other happiness is sitting on a gravel path and pulling up weeds.”

“Happiness is the sunshine of the soul.”

“Happiness is like sunshine. It may carry in the seed of disaster when it is too intense.”

“My heart grows light so fast that I could mount a grasshopper and gallop around the world, and not fatigue him any!”

“Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in front, not behind us; and "Forward!" is our motto. Let us not sit with folded hands, gazing upon the past as if it were the building: it is but the foundation. Let us not waste heart and life, thinking of what might have been, and forgetting the may-be that lies before us. Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not because of the happiness that is gone.”

“Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever.”

“We can't control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.”

“The measure of our happiness is the measure of our love.”

“One tear of joy outweighs a thousand tears of grief.”

“We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.”