Happiness Quotes
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.George William Curtis
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
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? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.Henny Youngman
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.Elbert Hubbard
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.Charlotte Bronte
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell
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
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.Charles Langbridge Morgan
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
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
Happiness is a way of praying.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
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
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.Johann von Goethe
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.George Sheehan
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.Chamfort
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
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
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 fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
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
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.Maxim Gorky
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.Helen Kelle
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.Albert Camus
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.Lord Mancroft
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.Al Batt, in National Enquire
