Happiness Quotes
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
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
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.Author Unknown
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
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
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
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.Arthur Schopenhaue
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.Agnes Repplie
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
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.Jonathan Swift
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitze
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
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.Freya Madeline Stark
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
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
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.Thomas Szasz
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.Mahatma Gandhi
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.Gabrid Garcia Marquez
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
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
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.Author Unknown
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.Elbert Hubbard
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
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
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.J. Petit - Senn
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
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Plutarch
