Happiness Quotes

People are happiest when they have goals, small and large, because they can look forward to attaining them.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

And even if a short while from now you take off to inhabit some cloud way above cloud nine I’d still rather stay grounded and watch the stars from here.

When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.

History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

Onstage I’m the happiest person in the world.

Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.