Happiness Quotes
If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
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
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
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.Theodore Isaac Rubin
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
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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.Pearl Buck
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
The secret of happiness is something to do.John Burroughs
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.Cyrus Corteise
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.Alanis Morissette
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
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.George Santayana
Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.Roosevelt, Eleano
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.H. L. Mencken
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
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.Lillian Eichler Watson
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Helen Kelle
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.Author Unknown
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.C. C. Colton
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.Al Batt, in National Enquire
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
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
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.Bertrand Russell
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
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.Charles Caleb Colton
