Happiness Quotes
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 secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.James M. Barrie
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.Louis D. Brandeis
Where ambition ends happiness begins.Author Unknown
But be, as you have been, my happiness...Randall Jarrell
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.Shelley
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
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.Leo C. Rosten
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
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
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.Margaret Lee Runbeck
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 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 possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.A. Edward Newton
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
What? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.Henny Youngman
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.Sanskrit Prove
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
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
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
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
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.Wilhelm von Humboldt
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.Pearl Buck
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.Henry Ford
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.John Train
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.Author Unknown
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
