Happiness Quotes

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Pearl Buck
Sophocles - there is no happiness where there is no wisdom no...
F. h. bradley - the secret of happiness is to admire without...
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
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
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Laurence J. Pete
Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.
Roosevelt, Eleano
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
What? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.
Henny Youngman
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
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
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
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
George Santayana
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
The secret of happiness is something to do.
John Burroughs
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Jennifer Louden
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 friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
J. Petit - Senn
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Randall Jarrell
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.
Unknown
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
Charlotte Bronte
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller, Quote of the day book
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
George Sheehan
The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann von Goethe
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
Marabeth Madsen
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
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
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
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