Happiness Quotes
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
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
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.Thomas Jefferson
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.Tom Stoppard
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
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.George Eliot
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
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
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.George William Curtis
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
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.Marabeth Madsen
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.Henry Van Dyke
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.George Burns
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
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
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitze
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.Arthur Schopenhaue
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.Rabbi Harold Kushne
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.William Cowpe
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.Samuel Johnson
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
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
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
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.Euripides
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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
