Happiness Quotes
But be, as you have been, my happiness...Randall Jarrell
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.J. Petit - Senn
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
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.Al Batt, in National Enquire
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Albert Einstein
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.George Sheehan
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.Horace
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Ayn Rand
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
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
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
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
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.Charles Caleb Colton
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
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
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
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
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
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 not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.Woodrow Wilson
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.Sidney Madwed
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.Desiderius Erasmus
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
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.Charles Caleb Colton
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.Aldous Huxley