Happiness Quotes
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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
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
To fill the hour - That is happiness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
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
Happiness is a warm puppy.Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.Helen Kelle
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.Bertrand Russell
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
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 that has been opened to us.Helen Kelle
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.Albert Camus
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
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
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.Unknown
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.Alanis Morissette
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.Newell Dwight Hillis
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.Euripides
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
