Quotes About Happiness

126 quotes

English actor and filmmaker

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

American actress

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

American singer and actress

I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!

Finnish software engineer

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

Spanish tennis player

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

Prime Minister of India

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

Austrian composer

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Polish composer and pianist

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Serbian tennis player

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

American actor

I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.

French artist

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

American philosopher

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

— Spiritual Laws

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

— The Importance of Being Earnest

French philosopher, author, and journalist

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

— A Happy Death

Russian author

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

— War and Peace

French novelist, critic and essayist

Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.

— Jean Santeuil

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate

Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in this world which heals what happiness does not heal.

— Of Love and Other Demons

14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibetans

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

— The Art of Happiness