Happiness Quotes
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.Rabbi Harold Kushne
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.Gabrid Garcia Marquez
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.Chamfort
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.Rita Mae Brown
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, September 8, 2003
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
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
To fill the hour - That is happiness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.Tom Stoppard
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.Dale Carnegie
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
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 is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.Mother Teresa
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
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
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.Lillian Eichler Watson
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
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
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
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
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
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
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Plutarch
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 which has opened for us.Helen Kelle
Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.Roosevelt, Eleano
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
