Happiness Quotes
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.Thomas Jefferson
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
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.George Santayana
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.Rita Mae Brown
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - Not a destination.Roy M. Goodman
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
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
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
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.William Hazlitt
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
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.Leo C. Rosten
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.Woodrow Wilson
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
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
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.Author Unknown
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.Samuel Johnson
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
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
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
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
Where ambition ends happiness begins.Author Unknown
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.Nikolaus Lenus
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.Euripides
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
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.Sigmund Freud
