Happiness Quotes
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.Marabeth Madsen
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - Definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
What? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.Henny Youngman
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.Norman MacEwan
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.Alanis Morissette
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.Carl Jung
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell
A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.Fontenelle
Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.Maurice Maeterlinck
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.Rabbi Harold Kushne
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
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
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 interval between periods of unhappiness.Don Marquis
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
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
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.Lord Byron
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by - Product of other activities.Aldous Huxley
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
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
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Helen Keller, Quote of the day book
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.Burton Hills
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 ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Albert Einstein
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.Arthur Schopenhaue
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.Kitaro Nishida
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
