Happiness Quotes

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

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus

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

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavour to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey

Happiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.
Amy Lowell

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

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

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John Stossel

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon

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

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry Fielding

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

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

Simply seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness, and you will likely be happy much of the time.
Dr M Scott Peck

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

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

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron

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

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

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

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

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

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Graham Greene

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
Napoleon Hill

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth
George Bernard Shaw

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

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much
Bernard Fontenelle

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Philip Larkin

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France

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

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Horatio Alger

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps
Paulo Coelho

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 is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. [an intriguing definition of happiness there!]
Joyce Grenfell

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

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



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