Quotes about happiness

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Immanuel Kant

Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their family being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

Confucius

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise – sometimes with astonishment – how happy we had been.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

H. Jackson Brown

Your inner beliefs and desires are what make you happy.

John Gray

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

Thich Nhat Hanh

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

14th Dalai Lama

I’ve concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don’t put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

Andy Stanley

I only want my work to make people happy.

Jackie Chan

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

Aristotle