Happiness Quotes
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
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
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.Author Unknown
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.John Train
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.Robert Anson Heinlein
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
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
Happiness cannot be found - - It must be created anew everyday.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness - - The sense that that is where we really belong.Henry Graham Greene
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.Theodore Isaac Rubin
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
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
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.Epictetus
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849
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
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.Newell Dwight Hillis
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)
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.Bertrand Russell
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.Maxim Gorky
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
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
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
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.Nikolaus Lenus
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.James M. Barrie
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
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
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
