Quotes about Happiness

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

And so how was a human to pray? I didn't know, and yet I prayed. I prayed the terrible prayer: "Thy will be done." Having so prayed, I prayed for strength. That seemed reasonable and right enough. As did praying for forgiveness and the grace to forgive. I prayed unreasonably, foolishly, hopelessly, that everybody in Port William might be blessed and happy—the ones I loved and the ones I did not. I prayed my gratitude

She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.

Look in and see him looking out. He is not always quiet, but there have been times when happiness has come to him, unasked, like the stillness on the water that holds the evening clear while it subsides - and he let go what he was not.

become good. It would become beautiful. It would make us happy, and not with the future happiness of political promising. It would make us happy as soon as we began to do it.

Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.