Happiness Quotes

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

Fontenelle

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

Happiness is a way of praying.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)

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 is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.

Unknown

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 can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.

Alexander Humboldt

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

Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.

Cyrus Corteise

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Eykis

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

Tyron Edwards

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Author Unknown

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Anon.

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

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

Wayne Dye

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness - - The sense that that is where we really belong.

Henry Graham Greene

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Anson Heinlein