Happiness Quotes

Kitaro nishida - if my heart can become pure and simple like that...
Albert camus - but what is happiness except the simple harmony...
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Gabrid Garcia Marquez
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Unknown
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
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
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
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than he discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat - Savarin
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Langbridge Morgan
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feathe
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
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andr Maurois
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.
Roosevelt, Eleano
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
C. C. Colton
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Kelle
Happiness is a way of praying.
Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
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 Aelius Aurelius
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
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
William Blake
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - Not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman
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
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
A Course In Miracles
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
Unknown