Happiness Quotes
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.Ludwig van Beethoven
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
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 Aurelius Antoninus
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.Eykis
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
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
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
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.Gabrid Garcia Marquez
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.Robertson Davies
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
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
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.Maurice Chevalie
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.William Feathe
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
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
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.Agnes Repplie
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.Anon.
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.Amanda Bradley
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.William Blake
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.Benjamin Franklin
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.Lao - Tzu
Happiness is a warm puppy.Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.Norman MacEwan
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.Maurice Masterlinck
