Happiness Quotes
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.Wilhelm von Humboldt
Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.Jonathan Swift
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.The laws of Manu
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.Euripides
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.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Plutarch
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles, Antigone
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
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 a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
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
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.Albert Einstein
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Herman Cain
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.H Hahn Blavatsky
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.Author Unknown
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.Lao - Tzu
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.Anthelme Brillat - Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.Bertrand Russell
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.George Burns
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
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
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
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
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
