Happiness Quotes
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
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
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana
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
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.Saint Augustine
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell
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
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Ayn Rand
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.Ernest Dimnet
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.Rabbi H. Schachtel
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.Kalidasa
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.A. Edward Newton
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.Lord Mancroft
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.Shakti Gawain
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.Dr. Dale E. Turne
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.Albert Camus
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
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
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
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
