Happiness Quotes
Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.Roosevelt, Eleano
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 is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.Tom Stoppard
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
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
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.William James
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost
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
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.Al Batt, in National Enquire
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.Chamfort
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.Anon.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.Christian Nestell Bovee
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.Jennifer Louden
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.H Hahn Blavatsky
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.Leo C. Rosten
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.Aldous Huxley
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
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
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.Sigmund Freud
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.James M. Barrie
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.Francis Hutcheson
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.Author Unknown
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.Henry Ford
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.Charlotte Bronte
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
