Happiness Quotes
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
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.H. L. Mencken
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.Dr. Smiley Blanton
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 lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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, Mansfield Park
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.Wayne Dye
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
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.Maurice Masterlinck
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, September 8, 2003
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.William Lyon Phelps
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.Willa Sibert Cathe
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.Author Unknown
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
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
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.Don Marquis
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
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
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.Thomas Szasz
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.Lord Mancroft
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than he discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.Anthelme Brillat - Savarin
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
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
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.Author Unknown
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.Rabbi H. Schachtel
Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.Roosevelt, Eleano
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
