Quotes about Happiness

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.

We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.

Something has gone wrong in us, very wrong indeed. So wrong that we have to be told that joy is found not in having another man's wife, but in having our own. But the point is not the law; the point is the joy.

Both Dorothy and the Scarecrow had been greatly interested in the story of the Tin Woodman, and now they knew why he was so anxious to get a new heart. "All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one." "I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Happiness is the full use of one's talents along lines of excellence.

I'll feel my heaven anew

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down Happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life.

They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate with dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.