Happiness Quotes

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”

“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.”

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”

“Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.”