Happiness Quotes
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
What? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.Henny Youngman
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
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.Cyrus Corteise
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.Anon.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
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 different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.George Sheehan
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
To fill the hour - That is happiness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.Samuel Johnson
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
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
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
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.Rabbi Harold Kushne
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.Gabrid Garcia Marquez
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.Shakti Gawain
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.Ludwig van Beethoven
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
