Happiness Quotes
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.Elbert Hubbard
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.Nikolaus Lenus
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost
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
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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 one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.Helen Kelle
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
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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 includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
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
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.Henry Van Dyke
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.Burton Hills
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.Kitaro Nishida
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.Dale Carnegie
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.Smiley Blanton
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.Unknown
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a warm puppy.Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.William Cowpe
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.William Lyon Phelps
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
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.Thomas Jefferson
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.Sidney Madwed
