Happiness Quotes
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.Mother Teresa
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.Wilhelm von Humboldt
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.Lillian Eichler Watson
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.William Hazlitt
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.Barry Duncan
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
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.George Washington
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.Author Unknown
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.A. Edward Newton
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
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
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.Woodrow Wilson
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.Storm Jameson
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.Bertrand Russell
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.Louis D. Brandeis
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
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
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
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.H. L. Mencken
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
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.Charles Caleb Colton
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.Louis D. Brandeis
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.Lao - Tzu
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.Cyrus Corteise
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.Lord Mancroft
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
