Quotes about happiness

I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy, To touch my person to someone else’s is about as much as I can stand.

Walt Whitman

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

John Adams

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

Paramahansa Yogananda

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you’re doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you’ll go to bed at night happy.

Jon Bon Jovi

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Paramahansa Yogananda

People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.

Robert A. Heinlein

You must choose happiness. Happiness is a habit. It is a good habit to ponder often on Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;

Joseph Murphy

Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

William E. Vaughan