HAPPINESS QUOTES
quotations about Happiness
Every object, every being,
is a jar full of delight.
RUMI
Essential Rumi
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
LEO TOLSTOY
War and Peace
If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad
SHERYL CROW
"If It Makes You Happy"
Such is the force of Happiness--
The Least can lift a ton
Assisted by its stimulus.
EMILY DICKINSON
"Such is the force of happiness"
Happiness is like your shadow. Run after it and you will never catch it, but keep your face to the sun and it will follow you.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDE
Autumn Leaves
Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
AMERICAN PROVERB
You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.
WILL FERGUSON
Happiness
Never put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.
ANONYMOUS
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
RITA MAE BROWN
Hiss of Death
I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.
NICOLE KIDMAN
Vanity Fair, Oct. 2007
If you ask a man how he is, he searches himself to find a pain to report. If he has nothing but happiness he hates to mention it, and says, "Oh, not half bad."
FRANK CRANE
"Hidden Happiness," Four Minute Essays
Happiness is rarely visible to the multitude ... it lies hidden in odd corners and quiet places.
FRANK CRANE
"Hidden Happiness", Four Minute Essays
HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
Happiness in it's uncut form
Is the feeling that I get, you're warm, warm
Happy's what I get when we do what we do
Happiness, mama, is being with u
PRINCE
"Girls & Boys"
If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
JANE AUSTEN
Mansfield Park
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
STEPHEN KING
Wolves of the Calla
So this is happiness,
that journeyman.
ANNE SEXTON
poem, Nov. 9, 1970
To be happy you must be your own sunshine.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke