Happiness Quotes

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt, in National Enquire
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
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
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
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
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
Tyron Edwards
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.
Andrew Bonar Law
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
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao - Tzu
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Author Unknown
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhaue
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
Mother Teresa
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint Augustine
He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness - - The sense that that is where we really belong.
Henry Graham Greene
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
The secret of happiness is something to do.
John Burroughs
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 opened for us.
Hellen Kelle
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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 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
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Kelle