Happiness Quotes
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
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
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
A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.Fontenelle
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.Willa Sibert Cathe
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 not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
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
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Happiness is a way of praying.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
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
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.George William Curtis
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.Thomas Jefferson
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.Robert Anson Heinlein
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.A Course In Miracles
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
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 greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.Desiderius Erasmus
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.Author Unknown
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.Lord Byron
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
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Albert Einstein
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.Charles Caleb Colton
Where ambition ends happiness begins.Author Unknown
