Happiness Quotes

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Author Unknown
Henny youngman - what? s the use of happiness? it can? t buy you...
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
George eliot - it is only a poor sort of happiness that could...
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
Nikolaus Lenus
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 is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
George Sheehan
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
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
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Ben Franklin
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
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
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Euripides
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 good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
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
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Seneca
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
John Mason Good
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Francis Hutcheson
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
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
Gahan Wilson
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Sibert Cathe
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.
Ludwig van Beethoven