Happiness Quotes
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.Unknown
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.Carl Jung
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
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.Jennifer Louden
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
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.Dale Carnegie
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
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 that has been opened to us.Helen Kelle
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
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
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.Denis Waitley
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.Woodrow Wilson
The secret of happiness is something to do.John Burroughs
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.Al Batt, in National Enquire
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.Wilhelm von Humboldt
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.Newell Dwight Hillis
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.Saint Augustine
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.Horace
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.Lillian Eichler Watson
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.H Hahn Blavatsky
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.Agnes Repplie
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.Tyron Edwards
