Quotes about happiness

If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?

Thomas Jefferson

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

Jackie Chan

Happy people have no history.

Leo Tolstoy

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

John Green

There is always hope. If we work with and transform our minds, then happiness is ours.

Sogyal Rinpoche

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

H. G. Wells

A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people’s property, other people’s money, other people’s labor – other people’s lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Thomas Jefferson

I don’t know what happiness is. I don’t know what sweet caress is. Still, I’m always laughing like a clown.

Bob Marley