Happiness Quotes
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
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
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
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.George Sand
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.Roosevelt, Eleano
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.William Hazlitt
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Happiness is a warm puppy.Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.Henry Ford
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
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
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.Albert Camus
Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.Kalidasa
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.Shelley
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.Anon.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.William Lyon Phelps
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
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.Saint Augustine
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
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
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.Ethel Perry Andrus
