Happiness Quotes
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.Terry Pratchett, Jingo
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
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.Robert Anson Heinlein
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
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
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
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.William Hazlitt
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
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.Albert Camus
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.Willa Sibert Cathe
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.Agnes Repplie
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.Mahatma Gandhi
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
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.Anon.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.Maurice Maeterlinck
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
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
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 reflective, like the light of heaven.Washington Irving, American writer and poet
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
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
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
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.Napoleon Hill
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
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
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
