Quotes about Happiness

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.

Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.

Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.

That joy in existence without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.

Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

And joy, Grandfather would remind me, joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have the more of, the more of it you give away?

Now we leave our tears for mirth. Now we sing, not death, but birth.

Austerity has always made me happy, and its opposite, miserable. I find it strange that, knowing this, I should so often have inflicted upon myself the nausea of over-indulgence, and had to fight off the black dogs of satiety. Human beings, as Pascal points out, are peculiar in that they avidly pursue ends they know will bring them no satisfaction; gorge themselves with food which cannot nourish and with pleasures which cannot please. I am a prize example.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons]