Happiness Quotes

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Lord Mancroft

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

E. M. Cioran

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George Sheehan

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Lord Byron

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

James M. Barrie

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

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

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

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Hellen Kelle

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Jonathan Swift

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.

Andrew Bonar Law

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

Wayne Dye

If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.

Nikolaus Lenus

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

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

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

Roosevelt, Eleano

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Sir Francis Bacon

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Eykis

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

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis