Happiness Quotes

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

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.

Marabeth Madsen

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

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - Not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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

But be, as you have been, my happiness...

Randall Jarrell

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius, Analects

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Wlters

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.

Samuel Johnson

Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.

Andrew Bonar Law

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.

The Dhammapada

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitze

When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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 been opened for us.

Helen Kelle

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

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 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

Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Washington Irving, American writer and poet

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

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

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

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.

Lord Mancroft

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.

Amanda Bradley

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

Woodrow Wilson

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

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

H Hahn Blavatsky