Happiness Quotes
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.H Hahn Blavatsky
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.Smiley Blanton
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
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.Author Unknown
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
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
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
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.Henry Ford
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.Charlotte Bronte
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
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 having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.George Burns
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.Shakti Gawain
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
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.Willa Sibert Cathe
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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 not a goal it is a by - Product.Roosevelt, Eleano
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
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
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
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.George Santayana
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.Bertrand Russell
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.The laws of Manu
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.George Washington
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.Christian Nestell Bovee
The secret of happiness is something to do.John Burroughs
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.Orson Scott Card
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
