Happiness Quotes
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.Henry Ford
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.Willa Sibert Cathe
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
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.George William Curtis
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.Amanda Bradley
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.Samuel Johnson
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.Jane Austen
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.Shelley
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.F. H. Bradley
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
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
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.Don Marquis
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.Louis D. Brandeis
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.Orson Scott Card
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 a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.Storm Jameson
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
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.John Dewey
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.Sanskrit Prove
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
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)
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.Maitri Upanishads
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.Maurice Chevalie
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
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
The secret of happiness is something to do.John Burroughs
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Buddha
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.Graham Greene
