Happiness Quotes
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.Chamfort
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.Helen Kelle
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.Rabbi Harold Kushne
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.Bertrand Russell
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.Robertson Davies
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.Bertrand Russell
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.Anais Nin
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.Lillian Eichler Watson
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.Horace
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.Lord Mancroft
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Albert Einstein
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.Dale Carnegie
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.George Washington
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 Antoninus
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.George Santayana
If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.Nikolaus Lenus
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.Freya Madeline Stark
