Happiness Quotes
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
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
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
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.Rabbi Harold Kushne
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
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
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
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
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.Al Batt, in National Enquire
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - Not a destination.Roy M. Goodman
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.Jane Austen
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.Orson Scott Card
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.Benjamin Franklin
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
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
Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.Dr. Smiley Blanton
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
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
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
