Happiness Quotes
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
To fill the hour - That is happiness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.Desiderius Erasmus
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.Author Unknown
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
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.Author Unknown
A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.Fontenelle
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.Unknown
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.Rita Mae Brown
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
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
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
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
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
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
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Buddha
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.Washington Irving, American writer and poet
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.Tom Stoppard
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.Nikolaus Lenus
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
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.Bertrand Russell
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.George Santayana
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
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
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.Gabrid Garcia Marquez
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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
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
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.Bertrand Russell
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.Eykis
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.Don Marquis
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
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
