Happiness Quotes
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
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
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.Leo C. Rosten
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
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
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
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
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 is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.Eykis
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.John Dewey
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.James M. Barrie
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
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.Newell Dwight Hillis
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
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
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.Samuel Johnson
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.Maurice Maeterlinck
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
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.
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.Anthelme Brillat - Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.Dale Carnegie
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
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Helen Keller, Quote of the day book
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
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.William Cowpe
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
