Happiness Quotes
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than he discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.Anthelme Brillat - Savarin
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
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
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.Pearl Buck
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
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.Tom Stoppard
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
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
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.Barry Duncan
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Buddha
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.Saint Augustine
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.Author Unknown
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
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen
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
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.Woodrow Wilson
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Allan K. Chalmers
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.Thomas Jefferson
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.Eykis
Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.Bertrand Russell
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
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
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.John Train
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
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
