Happiness Quotes
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.Desiderius Erasmus
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Allan K. Chalmers
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
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
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.Maitri Upanishads
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.George Santayana
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
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
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)
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
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 like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.Lillian Eichler Watson
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.William Cowpe
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.Dale Carnegie
Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Ayn Rand
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.Willa Sibert Cathe
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.Jennifer Louden
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
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 includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.George Burns
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
