Happiness Quotes

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy

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

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by - Product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?

Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Samuel Johnson

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.

Lord Mancroft

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

A Course In Miracles

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Where ambition ends happiness begins.

Author Unknown

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Dante, The Divine Comedy

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 is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.

Tom Stoppard

The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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

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

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

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Masterlinck

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

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

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

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Anson Heinlein

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.

Marabeth Madsen

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

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

H Hahn Blavatsky

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

F. H. Bradley

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.

Roosevelt, Eleano

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke