Happiness Quotes
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.John Dewey
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.Willa Sibert Cathe
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.Arthur Schopenhaue
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.George Burns
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
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Plutarch
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles, Antigone
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
What? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.Henny Youngman
A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.Fontenelle
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
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.George Santayana
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.Woodrow Wilson
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - Not a destination.Roy M. Goodman
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
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.Carl Jung
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.Johann von Goethe
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.James M. Barrie
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.Sigmund Freud
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.Desiderius Erasmus
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.Ludwig van Beethoven
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 you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.Albert Camus
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
