Happiness Quotes
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
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
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.Nikolaus Lenus
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.Rabbi H. Schachtel
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.Euripides
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
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
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
Where ambition ends happiness begins.Author Unknown
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.Johann von Goethe
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.Cyrus Corteise
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
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
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.Agnes Repplie
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.Lord Mancroft
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.Marabeth Madsen
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
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
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
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
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
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 first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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
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
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Herman Cain
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
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
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
