Happiness Quotes

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
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
Helen kelle - when one door of happiness closes, another one...
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
E. M. Cioran
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao - Tzu
Helen kelle - many persons have a wrong idea of what...
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
Gahan Wilson
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
Marabeth Madsen
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert G. Ingersoll
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Jonathan Swift
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
Smiley Blanton
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
H Hahn Blavatsky
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
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
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt, in National Enquire
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Unknown
I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
Alexander Humboldt
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 a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.
James M. Barrie
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
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
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint Augustine
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
C. C. Colton
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Seneca
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
What? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.
Henny Youngman
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Author Unknown
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw