Happiness Quotes
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.Elbert Hubbard
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.Anais Nin
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
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.Robert Anson Heinlein
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.George Sand
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.Author Unknown
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
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.Mahatma Gandhi
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
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.C. C. Colton
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.George William Curtis
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
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
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
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.Mother Teresa
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.The laws of Manu
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.Lillian Eichler Watson
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.Eykis
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Buddha
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.Bertrand Russell
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
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.Sigmund Freud
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
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
The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.Johann von Goethe
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
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.Dr. Dale E. Turne
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
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
