Quotes about happiness

Men want to make women happy.

Jerry Seinfeld

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

Bertrand Russell

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no spot is less habitable than a place where one has been happy.

Cesare Pavese

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness consists more in small conveniencies or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Benjamin Franklin

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Albert Camus

Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed in order to be happy, and you will be. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.

Neale Donald Walsch

You can only be as happy as your saddest child.

Oprah Winfrey

I was very fond of you, but now I’m so, so tired. I’m not happy to go, but one needn’t be happy to make another start.

Albert Camus