Happiness Quotes
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
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
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
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 frendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.Margaret Lee Runbeck
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
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
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.Carl Jung
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.Ethel Perry Andrus
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.Amanda Bradley
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.Sidney Madwed
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.Eykis
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.Sigmund Freud
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.Bertrand Russell
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.Storm Jameson
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.George Sand
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.Helen Kelle
A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.Fontenelle
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.Christian Nestell Bovee
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
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.Alanis Morissette
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.Woodrow Wilson
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Happiness is a warm puppy.Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
