Happiness Quotes

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
E. M. Cioran
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
Robert g. ingersoll - happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence....
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
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
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Allan k. chalmers - the grand essentials of happiness are something...
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
Martha washington - i am still determined to be cheerful and happy,...
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
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
Charlotte Bronte
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
William Blake
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Jonathan Swift
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.
The laws of Manu
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
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
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
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Author Unknown
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Madeline Stark
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
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Graham Greene
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Author Unknown
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Author Unknown
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw