Happiness Quotes

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Gabrid garcia marquez - no medicine cures what happiness cannot....
Anthelme brillat - savarin, physiologie du gout, 1825 - the discovery of a new dish does more for human...
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
Smiley Blanton
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Author Unknown
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.
Maitri Upanishads
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
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
H. L. Mencken
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
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.
Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
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
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
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.
The laws of Manu
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann von Goethe
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Rabbi H. Schachtel
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness - - The sense that that is where we really belong.
Henry Graham Greene
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Author Unknown
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Madeline Stark