Happiness Quotes
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.Agnes Repplie
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.Louis D. Brandeis
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitze
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.Euripides
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.George Sheehan
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.Ethel Perry Andrus
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.Bertrand Russell
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.Willa Sibert Cathe
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.William Cowpe
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
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
If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The secret of happiness is something to do.John Burroughs
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
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
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.Buddha
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.George Sand
I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.Alexander Humboldt
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.Barry Duncan
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
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
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.Napoleon Hill
