Happiness Quotes
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.Helen Kelle
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
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
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
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
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.Wilhelm von Humboldt
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.George Eliot
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
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
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.H. L. Mencken
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
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
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.George Santayana
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.J. Petit - Senn
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.George Santayana
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.Marabeth Madsen
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.Burton Hills
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
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
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.Dr. Dale E. Turne
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, Mansfield Park
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.Rabbi Harold Kushne
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Helen Kelle
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
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 is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.Author Unknown
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.Leo C. Rosten
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.Storm Jameson
Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.Roosevelt, Eleano
