Happiness Quotes

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

George Eliot

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

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Samuel Johnson

The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Johann von Goethe

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

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

Sanskrit Prove

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

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

Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

A Course In Miracles

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Rabbi H. Schachtel

Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Washington Irving, American writer and poet

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

Ruth Fulton Benedict

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

Norm Papernick

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

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

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

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

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

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".

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

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt, in National Enquire

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

F. H. Bradley

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

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

Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.

George W. Douglas

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

Wayne Dye

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, Antigone

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

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

Horace

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

William Lyon Phelps

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

Fontenelle

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

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

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden