Happiness Quotes
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.Albert Camus
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
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
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
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
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.Lord Byron
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.John Dewey
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 opened for us.Hellen Kelle
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Plutarch
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.Marabeth Madsen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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
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
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.Chamfort
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.Thomas Jefferson
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 is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.Robertson Davies
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.Sanskrit Prove
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 Aurelius Antoninus
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.Unknown
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.Storm Jameson
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.Shelley
