Happiness Quotes

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Chinese Prove

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

Euripides

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

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

Tyron Edwards

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.

Gahan Wilson

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

Wayne Dye

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.

The laws of Manu

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Buddha

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

James M. Barrie

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

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

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?

Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

E. M. Cioran

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat - Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Johann von Goethe

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown