Happiness Quotes
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.George Santayana
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
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
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.Rabbi H. Schachtel
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
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
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
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.James M. Barrie
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.Unknown
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
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
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
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
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
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.Lord Mancroft
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 different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.George Sheehan
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.Lillian Eichler Watson
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
The secret of happiness is something to do.John Burroughs
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.George Burns
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 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
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.Al Batt, in National Enquire
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
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.Lao - Tzu
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.Desiderius Erasmus
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.Amanda Bradley
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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
