Happiness Quotes
When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Hellen Kelle
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
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
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.Graham Greene
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
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
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
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
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
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.Amanda Bradley
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.C. C. Colton
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.William Lyon Phelps
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
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.John Dewey
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
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
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.Unknown
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.Agnes Repplie
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.A Course In Miracles
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
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.Eykis
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, Antigone
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.Saint Augustine
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Allan K. Chalmers
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 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
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.Dr. Smiley Blanton
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.J. Petit - Senn
