Happiness Quotes
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.Margaret Lee Runbeck
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.George Sand
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.James M. Barrie
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
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
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 consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
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
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
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.Barry Duncan
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.Bertrand Russell
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.Chamfort
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
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 neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.Maitri Upanishads
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.Mahatma Gandhi
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.Euripides
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.Dr. Smiley Blanton
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
