Happiness Quotes
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.Burton Hills
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.Lillian Eichler Watson
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.Buddha
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
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.Jane Austen
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
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
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
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.Shakti Gawain
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.Washington Irving, American writer and poet
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
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Allan K. Chalmers
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
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
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
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
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.Horace
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.Dale Carnegie
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
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.Gabrid Garcia Marquez
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.Rita Mae Brown
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.Author Unknown
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.Maurice Chevalie
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
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
