Happiness Quotes

Martha washington - i am still determined to be cheerful and happy,...
Joseph addison - friendship improves happiness, and abates misery,...
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.
Sanskrit Prove
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.
Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
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
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Wlters
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - Not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman
Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
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
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Sibert Cathe
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Unknown
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.
The laws of Manu
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Anon.
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William James
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
Albert Einstein
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
Marabeth Madsen
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
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
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.
Lord Mancroft
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
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Ben Franklin
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
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