The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
— Marc Webb
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
— Maeve Binchy
Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!
— Madhuri Dixit
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
— M. Ward
When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
— Lynn Johnston
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
— Lydia M. Child
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
— Lupe Fiasco
Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.
— Ludivine Sagnier
My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.
— Lucy Alibar
Where fear is, happiness is not.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
— Louise Hart
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
— Marcel Proust
Even as a Miss World, you have to roleplay sometimes. When you look at some people, you feel like breaking down but you've to smile and spread happiness. So of course, I know I am a good actor.
— Manushi Chhillar
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
— Malcolm Forbes
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
— Madame de Stael
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
— Lysander Spooner
No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
— Lynn Coady
I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.
— Lydia Lunch
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
— Luise Rainer
I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.
— Lucy Davis
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
— Lucinda Williams
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
Klopp knows how to motivate players. He speaks to them individually, gets their confidence up, makes them believe and grow in quality. He makes his players feel happy. And they then take that happiness onto the field. He builds that into them.
— Lothar Matthaus
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Empowering women with better education, being sensitive towards their wellbeing, health, happiness, ensuring equal opportunities, and respecting their rights will go a long way in transforming Pakistan.
— Mahira Khan
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.
In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need.
— Ma Yansong
In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.
— Lynne Truss
Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
— Lynda Barry
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
— Lupita Nyong'o
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
— Ludwig van Beethoven
I was the funny one in my group; there was a lot pressure to be responsible for everyone's happiness. I didn't like watching other friends of mine be called the 'pretty one' or the 'smart one.' That had no depth, and it didn't match how I knew them.
— Lucy Dacus
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
— Lucan
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
