HAPPINESS QUOTES

quotations about Happiness

Happiness quote

Every object, every being,
is a jar full of delight.

RUMI

Essential Rumi


Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

LEO TOLSTOY

War and Peace


If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad

SHERYL CROW

"If It Makes You Happy"


Such is the force of Happiness--
The Least can lift a ton
Assisted by its stimulus.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Such is the force of happiness"


Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

ROBERT FROST

attributed, Wise Words and Quotes


Happiness is like your shadow. Run after it and you will never catch it, but keep your face to the sun and it will follow you.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves


You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.

WILL FERGUSON

Happiness


Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

RITA MAE BROWN

Hiss of Death


Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.

AMERICAN PROVERB


Never put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.

ANONYMOUS


If you ask a man how he is, he searches himself to find a pain to report. If he has nothing but happiness he hates to mention it, and says, "Oh, not half bad."

FRANK CRANE

"Hidden Happiness," Four Minute Essays


I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.

NICOLE KIDMAN

Vanity Fair, Oct. 2007


Happiness is rarely visible to the multitude ... it lies hidden in odd corners and quiet places.

FRANK CRANE

"Hidden Happiness", Four Minute Essays


Happiness in it's uncut form
Is the feeling that I get, you're warm, warm
Happy's what I get when we do what we do
Happiness, mama, is being with u

PRINCE

"Girls & Boys"


HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary

Tags: Ambrose Bierce


If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park


No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

STEPHEN KING

Wolves of the Calla


So this is happiness,
that journeyman.

ANNE SEXTON

poem, Nov. 9, 1970


To be happy you must be your own sunshine.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke