Happiness Quotes

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Jane Austen

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

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

If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Mother Teresa

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

James M. Barrie

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

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

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

J. Petit - Senn

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Willa Sibert Cathe

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

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

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

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhaue

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

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

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

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

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Chamfort

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

William Blake

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

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills