Happiness Quotes

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

Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

Author Unknown

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

Nicole Kidman

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George Sheehan

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Camus

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

John Mason Good

In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.

Unknown

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowpe

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

George William Curtis

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.

Amanda Bradley

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Alfred Adle

Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.

Nikolaus Lenus

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao - Tzu

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 in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

Norm Papernick

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.

Saint Augustine

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Lord Byron

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwan

To fill the hour - That is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.

George W. Douglas

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky