Quotes
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. - Albert Einstein
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. - Willa Cather
Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. - Norman Bradburn
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. - Saint Augustine
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. - Dalai Lama
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. - Albert Camus
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good. - Bertrand Russell
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. - William Cowper
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. - Thomas Jefferson
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. - Omar Khayyam
I do not think we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
I do not think we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks. - Marlene Dietrich