Happiness Quotes

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
Diogenes laertius, zeno - one ought to seek out virtue for its own sake,...
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
Gahan Wilson
Jonathan swift - happiness is the perpetual possession of being...
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
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Author Unknown
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
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
George Sheehan
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
John Mason Good
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
Unknown
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.
George Sand
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
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEwan
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
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 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
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
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson
Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
C. C. Colton
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Francis Hutcheson
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - Not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. Kennedy
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
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
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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
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.
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
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein