Happiness Quotes

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Gabrid Garcia Marquez

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

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

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

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

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, September 8, 2003

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

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 ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

Unknown

He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness - - The sense that that is where we really belong.

Henry Graham Greene

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

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

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

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feathe

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

Shakti Gawain

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adle

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson