Happiness Quotes
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.Jonathan Swift
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.Orson Scott Card
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.Freya Madeline Stark
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
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
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.Ludwig van Beethoven
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.William Cowpe
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.Author Unknown
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.Lord Byron
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945
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
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.Graham Greene
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.Author Unknown
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
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.Maitri Upanishads
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles, Antigone
