Happiness Quotes

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

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

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

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 Aelius Aurelius

When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Helen Keller, Quote of the day book

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

Joseph Addison

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

William Blake

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplie

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

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

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

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

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Herman Cain

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

George Eliot

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

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

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.

Lord Mancroft

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

George Sand

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Kitaro Nishida

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison