Happiness Quotes

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.

The Dhammapada

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Kitaro Nishida

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

Woodrow Wilson

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Albert Camus

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.

Unknown

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adle

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

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Willa Sibert Cathe

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

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

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Anon.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Benjamin Franklin

To fill the hour - That is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

But be, as you have been, my happiness...

Randall Jarrell

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".

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

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Eykis

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

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.

Marabeth Madsen

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Kalidasa