Happiness Quotes

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

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.

Amanda Bradley

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Kelle

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalie

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.

Unknown

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

Sanskrit Prove

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Ben 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

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

John Mason Good

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

To fill the hour - That is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

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

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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

Storm Jameson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

H. L. Mencken

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.

The laws of Manu

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan