Quotes about Happiness

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Happiness is being grateful for what you have and having an attitude of gratitude instead of an attitude of envy.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Laughter is a rescue.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.