Happiness Quotes
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.Jennifer Louden
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.Alanis Morissette
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Ayn Rand
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 Aelius Aurelius
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.Wayne Dye
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
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.Sidney Madwed
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.Charles Caleb Colton
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Albert Einstein
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.Unknown
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.Amanda Bradley
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, September 8, 2003
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.J. Petit - Senn
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Herman Cain
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.Graham Greene
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
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.Smiley Blanton
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.Bertrand Russell
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.Helen Kelle
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.Saint Augustine
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
