Quotes on “happiness”

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.