Happiness Quotes
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.Leo C. Rosten
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
To fill the hour - That is happiness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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 which has opened for us.Helen Kelle
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.Lord Byron
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
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
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
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
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
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
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
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Plutarch
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.John Dewey
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.Benjamin Franklin
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.Maxim Gorky
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.Washington Irving, American writer and poet
Happiness is a way of praying.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.Chamfort
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
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
