Happiness Quotes

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
Gahan Wilson
Bertrand russell - to be without some of the things you want is an...
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
George burns - happiness is having a large, loving, caring,...
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
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.
George Sand
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
Samuel Johnson
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
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
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
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
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
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
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.
Ludwig van Beethoven
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexander Pope
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.
George W. Douglas
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
Benjamin Franklin
What? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.
Henny Youngman
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Seneca
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than he discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat - Savarin
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
Nikolaus Lenus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
Happiness is a way of praying.
Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Samuel Johnson
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Francis Hutcheson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox