Happiness Quotes
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitze
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
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
What? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.Henny Youngman
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
Happiness is a warm puppy.Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
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
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.Chamfort
But be, as you have been, my happiness...Randall Jarrell
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.Elbert Hubbard
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
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.Lord Mancroft
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.Henry Ford
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
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
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles, Antigone
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
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
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
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.Horace
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
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
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
