Happiness Quotes

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin

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: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.

Roosevelt, Eleano

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Benjamin Franklin

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

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.

Lillian Eichler Watson

When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Helen Keller, Quote of the day book

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Anon.

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

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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

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

John Mason Good

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Jonathan Swift

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

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 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

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.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?

Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

William Lyon Phelps

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Author Unknown

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

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

Unknown

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feathe

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

C. C. Colton