Famous Quotes About happiness

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.