Happiness Quotes

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
A Course In Miracles
Sophocles, antigone - there is no happiness where there is no wisdom;...
Chinese prove - happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least...
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
Lord William Beveridge
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius, Analects
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
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
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplie
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo C. Rosten
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
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
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
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
Nikolaus Lenus
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andr Maurois
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.
Andrew Bonar Law
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Jennifer Louden
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Euripides
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.
Bertrand Russell