Quotes about Happiness

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Youth holds no society with grief.

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind. I surrender to God any emotional habits that lead me down the path of unhappiness, and pray for guidance in shifting my thoughts. In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

The resurrection is our awakening from the dream, our return to right-mindedness, and thus our deliverance from hell. ... We recognized how avidly we drill the nails into our own hands and feet holding on to earthly interpretation of things when a choice to do otherwise would release us and make us happy.