Happiness Quotes
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
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 happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
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
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.Ethel Perry Andrus
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.Rabbi H. Schachtel
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitze
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
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
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
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
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.Saint Augustine
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
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
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
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
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.Albert Einstein
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.Don Marquis
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Plutarch
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.J. Petit - Senn
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
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
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
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
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
