Happiness Quotes
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.Jonathan Swift
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
But be, as you have been, my happiness...Randall Jarrell
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.Dale Carnegie
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.George Santayana
Happiness is a warm puppy.Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.Amanda Bradley
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitze
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
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.Washington Irving, American writer and poet
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
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.Bertrand Russell
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.J. Petit - Senn
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.Author Unknown
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.Norman MacEwan
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
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
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.Tyron Edwards
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.Aldous Huxley
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.William James
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.Lao - Tzu
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
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
The secret of happiness is something to do.John Burroughs
