Happiness Quotes
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.Benjamin Franklin
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.Pearl Buck
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.James M. Barrie
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.Wilhelm von Humboldt
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.Lao - Tzu
But be, as you have been, my happiness...Randall Jarrell
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Allan K. Chalmers
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. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.Washington Irving, American writer and poet
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 opened for us.Hellen Kelle
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
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.A Course In Miracles
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.George Washington
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.Arthur Schopenhaue
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
What? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.Henny Youngman
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.George Burns
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
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
