Happiness Quotes

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.

Roosevelt, Eleano

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

H. L. Mencken

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

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

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Kalidasa

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

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 is a choice that requires effort at times.

Anon.

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002

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

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Lord Byron

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George Sheehan

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

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by - Product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon