Happiness Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

Jesse Ventura

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

Walter Annenberg

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

Mary Astell

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

Guru Nanak

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

Ted Turner

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Henry Fielding

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

Taylor Caldwell

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bertolt Brecht

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Marianne Williamson

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

John Dos Passos

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Joseph Campbell

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Agatha Christie

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Marguerite Duras

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

Abdul Kalam

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Mohandas Gandhi

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Eudora Welty

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

Linus Torvalds

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Tom Stoppard

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

E. B. White

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

Julia Ward Howe

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Frederick Douglass

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

Genevieve Gorder

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

Anna Freud

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Green Ingersoll