Happiness Quotes
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
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
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
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
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.Agnes Repplie
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.A Course In Miracles
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
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.Mother Teresa
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.Chamfort
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
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
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
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
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
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.Napoleon Hill
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.Wayne Dye
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
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
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.Leo C. Rosten
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
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
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
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
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
Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles
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
