Happiness Quotes
The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.Johann von Goethe
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.The laws of Manu
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
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.Euripides
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
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.George Eliot
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
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
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.Author Unknown
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
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.Dr. Smiley Blanton
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.Lord Byron
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.Christian Nestell Bovee
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.William Hazlitt
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
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.George Santayana
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.H. L. Mencken
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.Maurice Maeterlinck
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
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.William James
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
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 the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitze
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
