Happiness Quotes

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
Marabeth Madsen
James oppenheim - the foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,...
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
Cyrus corteise - not many can admit their fears, but those who can...
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Roosevelt
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Anon.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao - Tzu
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
Barry Duncan
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
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
Chamfort
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
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
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
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
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Masterlinck
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andr Maurois
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Euripides
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis