Happiness Quotes

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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony Hopkins

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

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
Max Kauffman

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
Dale Turner

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka

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

The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh Hunt

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes

The thing about happiness is that too many people seek their individual happiness, when it is so much better to share it around.
John Harrigan

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet
James Oppenheim

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fedor Dostoevsky

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre Maurois

Happiness is no laughing matter
Richard Whately

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness in old age is, more than anything else, preserving the privileges of privacy.
Harold Azine

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Richard Bach

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

This tour takes the rarely seen trophy - the jewel in the crown of world football - to fans around the world, with the aim of spreading happiness and hope to make the world a better place.
Sepp Blatter

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

Happiness is realising that nothing is too important.
Antonio Gala

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
André Gide

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo Derek

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Imannuel Kant

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Richard Nixon

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D Roosevelt

Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Mary Wortley

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses
Sarah Orne Jewett

Tell me, what is happiness? - Use of Weapons (prologue)
Iain M Banks

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron

No real happiness is found
In trailing purple o'er the ground.
Thomas Parnell

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max Planck

I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.
Donna Fargo

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac Disraeli

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford



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