Happiness Quotes
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.Henry Van Dyke
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
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
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
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.Elbert Hubbard
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness - - The sense that that is where we really belong.Henry Graham Greene
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
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
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
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - Not a destination.Roy M. Goodman
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.Euripides
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945
Where ambition ends happiness begins.Author Unknown
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
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
Happiness is a way of praying.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.Dale Carnegie
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
