Happiness Quotes

"Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.'" Les Dawson

"At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness." Jill Scott

"We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration." Alanis Morissette

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!" William Hazlitt

"Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow." A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself." Maeve Binchy

"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." Maxwell Maltz

"Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace." Beth Ditto

"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." Louis D. Brandeis

"My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations." Michael J. Fox

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness." Elsa Schiaparelli

"Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same." Mel Gibson

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world." Lana Del Rey

"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency." Quentin Crisp

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it." Carrie Snow

"I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy." Giacomo Casanova

"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness." Emile M. Cioran

"My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect." D. H. Lawrence

"Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me." Tyler Perry

"It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more." Herman Hesse

"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness." Virginia Woolf

"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?" Adam Smith

"People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made." Joan Rivers

"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true." Audrey Hepburn

"The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift." Ellen DeGeneres

"I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome." Helen McCrory

"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." Martha Washington

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." Helen Keller