Happiness Quotes

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
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
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
C. C. Colton
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
Marabeth Madsen
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
To fill the hour - That is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.
George Burns
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.
Wayne Dye
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.
Orson Scott Card
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
A. Edward Newton
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is not a goal it is a by - Product.
Roosevelt, Eleano
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Author Unknown
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
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.
Sidney Madwed
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.
Lillian Eichler Watson
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Kelle
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
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
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
J. Petit - Senn
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao - Tzu
The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann von Goethe