happiness Quotes

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.