Happiness Quotes
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
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
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 frendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
Happiness is a way of praying.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.H. L. Mencken
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.John Dewey
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
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
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.Jonathan Swift
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
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
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.Jane Austen
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.Alexander Humboldt
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.Author Unknown
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
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.Lord Mancroft
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
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
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.John Train
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.Rita Mae Brown
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
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.Norm Papernick
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
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.Theodore Isaac Rubin
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Allan K. Chalmers
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.William Cowpe
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.Graham Greene
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
The secret of happiness is something to do.John Burroughs
