Happiness Quotes

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Henry ford - there is joy in work. there is no happiness...
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
H. l. mencken - happiness is the china shop; love is the bull....
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.
George W. Douglas
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.
John Train
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowpe
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
Mother Teresa
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Masterlinck
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Aldous Huxley
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Author Unknown
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
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
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
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.
James M. Barrie
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
Tyron Edwards
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
Albert Camus
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Rabbi H. Schachtel
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Chinese Prove
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Author Unknown
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha