Happiness Quotes
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 joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
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
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
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.Cyrus Corteise
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.William James
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Helen Keller, Quote of the day book
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.Albert Einstein
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
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
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.Elbert Hubbard
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
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
Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.Henry Van Dyke
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Where ambition ends happiness begins.Author Unknown
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
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
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 Aelius Aurelius
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
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.Roosevelt, Eleano
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.Don Marquis
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 a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.Fontenelle
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
