Quotes about happiness

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!

Anton Chekhov

Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn’t.

Deepak Chopra

I’m often asked how I define “success.” It’s an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things – achievement and appreciation. One isn’t enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

Tim Ferriss

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.

Sylvester Stallone

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean de La Bruyere

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that he intends every man to be happy in his work.

John Ruskin

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

I’d like there to be less refugees. I’d like all girls to go to school. That’s what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.

Angelina Jolie

The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

Vernon Howard