Quotes about happiness

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Amy Winehouse

The purpose of life is to be happy. I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that. It’s also important not to interfere with anybody else’s right to do the same. We just need to practice that. It’s the Golden Rule.

Wayne Dyer

Every moment is a moment of happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

Euripides

As for suffering I do not wish even the slightest; as for happiness I am never satisfied. In this, there is no difference between others and me. Bless me so I may take joy in others’ happiness.

14th Dalai Lama

The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness.

Erich Fromm

A wise man, recognising that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Buddha

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly – one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

Leo Tolstoy

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

Samuel Johnson