Happiness Quotes
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
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
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
The highest happiness of man... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.Johann von Goethe
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.George Santayana
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.Nikolaus Lenus
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
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
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.George William Curtis
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
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
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Ayn Rand
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
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
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, Mansfield Park
The secret of happiness is something to do.John Burroughs
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.Anthelme Brillat - Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.Robert Anson Heinlein
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.Desiderius Erasmus
But be, as you have been, my happiness...Randall Jarrell
