Happiness Quotes
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
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
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.Cyrus Corteise
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.A Course In Miracles
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
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
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
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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 is the interval between periods of unhappiness.Don Marquis
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.Burton Hills
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
