Happiness Quotes
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.Saint Augustine
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Allan K. Chalmers
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.Wayne Dye
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
To fill the hour - That is happiness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.Maitri Upanishads
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.Theodore Isaac Rubin
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
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
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.Leo C. Rosten
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.Jane Austen
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.Sanskrit Prove
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.Graham Greene
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.Author Unknown
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.Barry Duncan
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.John Dewey
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.Shelley
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.Al Batt, in National Enquire
