Happiness Quotes

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than he discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Anthelme Brillat - Savarin

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

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

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

Andrew Bonar Law

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Roosevelt

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Chinese Prove

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

Fontenelle

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

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Chamfort

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

What? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.

Henny Youngman

Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Washington Irving, American writer and poet

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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 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

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.

Tom Stoppard

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

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

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

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

Helen Kelle

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Albert Camus