Happiness Quotes

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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

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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

God... doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace.
Patricia Heaton

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fedor Dostoevsky

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand
Maurice Maeterlinck

I played it endlessly [walking back to happiness] - it was like the first kiss, the beginning of a love affair with pop music that continues to the present day.
Mick Brown

The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh Hunt

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

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J B Priestley

As it is for the good of all and the general happiness of the nation, I am ready and willing. Tell the people I'm staying.
Pedro I

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

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook Jackson

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

We can give thanks for our health and happiness, the support we receive from our families and friends, some wonderful memories and the excitement that each new day brings
Queen Elizabeth II

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

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

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

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

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

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan

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

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

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

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adult
Thomas Szasz

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled [idea of happiness]
Brenda Blethyn

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton Wilder

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

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

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia Maria Child

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiapirelli

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak Chopra

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 not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert G Ingersoll

Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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

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

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

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



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