Happiness Quotes
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.John Dewey
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.Lillian Eichler Watson
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
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.Euripides
Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.Henry Van Dyke
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.Ernest Dimnet
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.The laws of Manu
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.Albert Camus
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
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
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.Albert Camus
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
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.George Santayana
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
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.Thomas Szasz
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Aristotle
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.Johann von Goethe
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
