Happiness Quotes

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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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale

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

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
Georges Simenon

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Benedict Spinoza

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

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
Harold Geneen

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness of the greatest number
Francis Hutcheson

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Robert E Lee

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud

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

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

I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.
Samuel Butler

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustav Flaubert

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

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.
Dan Brown

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens

Future:. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happinesss is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Since sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies
Thomas Gray

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances
Martha Washington

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

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

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne

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

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine

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

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
Joseph Barbara

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
Aristotle

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.
Gabriela Sabatini

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
John Gardner

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore De Balzac

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

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson

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

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

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

Happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it but only YOU can feel the warmth...
Ashton Kutcher

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

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

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May

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

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

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



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