Happiness Quotes

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ayn rand - my philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man...
Nikolaus lenus - many search for happiness as we look for a hat we...
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Alfred Adle
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feathe
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Kelle
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
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
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
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
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch
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 word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
Tyron Edwards
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
Albert Camus
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
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
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
Bertrand Russell
The secret of happiness is something to do.
John Burroughs
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.
Washington Irving, American writer and poet
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
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
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
Author Unknown
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Laurence J. Pete
A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.
Fontenelle
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.
Lord Mancroft
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porte
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
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
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Author Unknown
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