Quotes about Happiness

True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because theyre not on your road doesnt mean theyve gotten lost.

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;

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

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.

Try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

I do what I like, I like what I do.

Joy is not getting what you want; it's appreciating what you have.