Happiness Quotes

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

Wayne Dye

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

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

William Butler Yeats

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

C. C. Colton

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

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

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

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

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

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness - - The sense that that is where we really belong.

Henry Graham Greene

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, September 8, 2003

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalie

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

Unknown

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feathe

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Kitaro Nishida

On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.

Unknown

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

Author Unknown

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

Nikolaus Lenus

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

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

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Epictetus

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

Woodrow Wilson

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