Happiness Quotes
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.John Mason Good
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.Alexander Pope
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
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.Jennifer Louden
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.Benjamin Franklin
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.William James
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.Charles Langbridge Morgan
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.Charlotte Bronte
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.
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 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
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Herman Cain
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
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
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
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
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
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
But be, as you have been, my happiness...Randall Jarrell
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.A Course In Miracles
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
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is a state of activity.Aristotle
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
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
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 and moral duty are inseparably connected.George Washington
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
