happiness
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
3 wisdom & wit from Alexander Alekhine
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
9 other thoughts from John Dewey
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
16 wisdom & wit from Denis Diderot
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
3 quotes from Daniel Boone
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
8 quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
28 other thoughts from Napoleon Hill
Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
30 wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
100 more thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
4 other quotes from William Samuel Johnson
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
6 quotes from Lillie Langtry
I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.
5 more quotes from Michael Landon
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
15 more thoughts from Desiderius Erasmus
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
11 quotes from Graham Greene
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
6 other quotes from Leigh Hunt
The happiness of society is the end of government.
18 quotes from John Adams
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
3 other thoughts from Jonathan Edwards
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
6 quotes from Rutherford B. Hayes
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
52 quotes from Albert Camus
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
32 quotes from William Blake
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
25 more wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
10 thoughts from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
21 more quotes from Dale Carnegie
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
18 other quotes from Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
3 views from George A. Sheehan
Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
11 wisdom & wit from Henry Van Dyke
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
7 quotes from Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.
12 quotes from James Allen
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
10 wisdom & wit from Robert Mapplethorpe
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
29 more thoughts from Friedrich Schiller
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
2 more thoughts from Philip Sidney
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
2 other thoughts from Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
22 sayings from Andre Gide
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
2 quotes from Monica Edwards
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.
21 views from Dale Carnegie
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
21 quotes from Dale Carnegie
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
10 other thoughts from Fyodor Dostoevsky
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
3 other quotes from Gertrude Jekyll
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
52 more quotes from Albert Camus
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
52 other quotes from George Eliot
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
22 views from Andre Gide
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
21 other wisdom & wit from Dale Carnegie
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
12 wisdom & wit from William Cowper
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
The will of man is his happiness.
29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
4 quotes from Holbrook Jackson
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
6 views from Alexander Smith
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
8 views from Matthew Arnold
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
30 wisdom & wit from Gustave Flaubert
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
3 thoughts from Alfred de Musset
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
5 more views from Anwar Sadat
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
7 views from Herbert Read
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
2 other quotes from Cab Calloway
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
21 thoughts from Jane Austen
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
7 quotes from William E. Gladstone
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
46 sayings from George Santayana
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
7 other wisdom & wit from Henri Matisse
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
21 quotes from Jane Austen
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
3 views from Sam Levenson
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
30 wisdom & wit from Gustave Flaubert
Happiness is always a coincidence.
5 sayings from Jose Bergamin
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
7 more quotes from Phillips Brooks
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
46 other sayings from George Santayana
Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.
4 more quotes from Oscar Levant
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
46 thoughts from George Santayana
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
30 views from Gustave Flaubert
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
9 quotes from Willa Cather
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
3 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
14 more sayings from Stendhal
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
40 quotes from William James
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
37 other thoughts from Edmund Burke
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
17 sayings from Plutarch
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
9 other wisdom & wit from Walter Savage Landor
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
2 quotes from Storm Jameson
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
75 thoughts from Aristotle
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
5 quotes from Douglas William Jerrold
Happiness is an inside job.
14 quotes from William Arthur Ward
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
21 more quotes from George Burns
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
4 other quotes from Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
12 quotes from Thomas Merton
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
15 other quotes from Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.
20 more quotes from Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
6 other quotes from Zhuangzi
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
24 other thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
21 views from George Burns
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
21 views from Abu Bakr
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
3 more thoughts from Vittorio Alfieri
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
2 quotes from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
3 quotes from Ausonius
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
19 more wisdom & wit from Anton Chekhov
Love is trembling happiness.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
96 more sayings from Benjamin Franklin
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
2 other thoughts from Arthur Rubinstein
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
13 thoughts from Chanakya
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
2 wisdom & wit from Horatio Alger
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
12 quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
10 sayings from Heraclitus
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
75 sayings from Aristotle
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
14 thoughts from Stendhal
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
8 more wisdom & wit from Tryon Edwards
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
3 other quotes from Ernest Dimnet
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
9 views from Walter Savage Landor
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
14 other thoughts from Stendhal
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
24 more sayings from Carl Sandburg
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
2 quotes from F. H. Bradley
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
4 other quotes from William J. H. Boetcker
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
13 other sayings from Dante Alighieri
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
12 thoughts from Thomas Merton
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
2 quotes from Freya Stark
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
7 views from Jose Marti
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
5 quotes from Franz Schubert
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
2 quotes from Joyce Grenfell
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
73 more wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
29 views from Arthur Schopenhauer
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
7 other quotes from Jeremy Bentham
The right to happiness is fundamental.
5 other sayings from Anna Pavlova
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
5 other views from Anna Pavlova
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
3 thoughts from Lydia M. Child
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
7 quotes from Langston Hughes
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
73 thoughts from Victor Hugo
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
2 more views from Jacques Prevert
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
3 other quotes from Jeanne Calment
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
29 other quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
14 views from Bertolt Brecht
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
30 more quotes from George Washington
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
9 other quotes from William S. Burroughs
Happiness is no laughing matter.
5 more thoughts from Richard Whately
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
24 quotes from Ayn Rand
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
2 quotes from Joyce Grenfell
Happiness lies first of all in health.
6 quotes from George William Curtis
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
12 quotes from John Barrymore
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
2 quotes from Rosalia de Castro
Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.
5 other quotes from Amy Lowell
Independence is happiness.
14 quotes from Susan B. Anthony
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
47 views from Abraham Lincoln
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
3 sayings from Linus Pauling
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
73 thoughts from Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
7 quotes from Jeremy Bentham
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
29 other thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
3 thoughts from Robert Baden-Powell
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
5 quotes from Tom Wilson
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
105 more quotes from Albert Einstein
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
4 sayings from Maxim Gorky
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
2 more quotes from Hugh Walpole
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
5 other wisdom & wit from Tom Wilson
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
50 views from Robert Frost
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
2 sayings from William Cobbett
Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
4 sayings from Channing Pollock
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
2 quotes from Patrick Duffy
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
11 more views from Clare Boothe Luce
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
6 sayings from Liberty Hyde Bailey
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
3 wisdom & wit from William Dean Howells
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
27 wisdom & wit from James Madison
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
2 quotes from Frank Norris
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
3 thoughts from Ring Lardner
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
6 other sayings from William Morris
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
17 other sayings from Leo Buscaglia
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
16 thoughts from Henny Youngman
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
6 other views from Liberty Hyde Bailey
The secret of happiness is something to do.
17 quotes from John Burroughs
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
25 thoughts from Charles Baudelaire
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
11 quotes from William Ellery Channing
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
11 other quotes from Charlie Chaplin
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
9 wisdom & wit from Anthony Trollope
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
42 other sayings from Josh Billings
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
21 quotes from Bette Davis
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
9 sayings from Anthony Trollope
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
81 more quotes from William Shakespeare
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
6 thoughts from Leo Rosten
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
13 quotes from Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
11 thoughts from William Ellery Channing
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.
42 other quotes from Josh Billings
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
4 more quotes from David Brainerd
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
5 other views from Agnes Repplier
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
13 views from Immanuel Kant
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.
2 views from Max Planck
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
4 sayings from Marguerite Duras
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
20 more views from Anatole France
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
13 other wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
18 other quotes from Emile M. Cioran
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
6 thoughts from Mary Wollstonecraft
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
20 more views from Herbert Spencer
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
8 other thoughts from Hosea Ballou
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
5 more views from Henry Fielding
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
4 other quotes from James Freeman Clarke
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
8 sayings from Hosea Ballou
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
70 more views from Thomas Jefferson
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
3 quotes from Madame de Stael
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
45 other quotes from Bertrand Russell
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
2 more quotes from Omar Khayyam
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
45 views from Bertrand Russell
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
2 other wisdom & wit from Joseph Butler
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
52 sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
6 quotes from Bernard Meltzer
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
6 sayings from Benjamin Spock
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
2 quotes from Daphne du Maurier
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
11 more thoughts from John Stuart Mill
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
14 quotes from Audrey Hepburn
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
43 other wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
45 more thoughts from Bertrand Russell
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
45 other quotes from Bertrand Russell
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
11 sayings from Norman Vincent Peale
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
6 quotes from Bernard Meltzer
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
21 views from Karl Marx
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
33 wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
2 quotes from Thomas Hood
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
53 other views from Honore de Balzac
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
11 more quotes from John Stuart Mill
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
24 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
3 other quotes from Isaac D'Israeli
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
45 other views from Bertrand Russell
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
31 more wisdom & wit from Helen Keller
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
17 views from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
4 thoughts from Ben Jonson
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
31 quotes from Helen Keller
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
9 more sayings from Adam Smith
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
15 thoughts from Pierre Corneille
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
7 quotes from Sydney Smith
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
3 other wisdom & wit from Richard Cobden
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
31 quotes from Helen Keller
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
18 wisdom & wit from Pearl S. Buck
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
12 other quotes from Marquis de Sade
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
28 wisdom & wit from William Butler Yeats
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
9 other sayings from Adam Smith
Happiness seems made to be shared.
15 more quotes from Pierre Corneille
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
15 wisdom & wit from Pierre Corneille
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
2 more quotes from Martha Washington
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
9 quotes from Charles Spurgeon
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
7 more quotes from Sydney Smith
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
47 other sayings from George Orwell
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
31 more sayings from Helen Keller
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
31 more quotes from Helen Keller
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
58 other views from Henry Ward Beecher
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
2 thoughts from Martha Washington
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
6 wisdom & wit from Jacques Yves Cousteau
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
6 quotes from Ashley Montagu
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
9 more views from George Sand
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
6 quotes from Arthur Helps
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.
18 views from Don Marquis
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
2 quotes from Thomas Bulfinch
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
5 more sayings from Red Skelton
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
35 other quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
16 more thoughts from Douglas Horton
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
8 views from Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
45 sayings from Aldous Huxley
Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.
10 thoughts from Hermann Hesse
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
9 other sayings from Iris Murdoch
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
18 thoughts from Marcel Proust
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
8 more wisdom & wit from Mary Baker Eddy
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
18 other quotes from Don Marquis
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
18 more quotes from Marcel Proust
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
5 thoughts from Oswald Chambers
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
12 wisdom & wit from Franz Kafka
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
9 more quotes from George Sand
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
13 quotes from Dag Hammarskjold
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
14 other quotes from Andre Maurois
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
14 thoughts from Andre Maurois
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
7 thoughts from Walter Benjamin
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
19 sayings from Carl Jung
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
10 other views from Arthur Ashe
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
2 other quotes from Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
32 other wisdom & wit from Henry Ford
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
2 other sayings from John Mason Brown
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
32 sayings from Henry Ford
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
10 sayings from Hermann Hesse
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
45 more wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
16 thoughts from Douglas Horton
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
9 more quotes from George Sand
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
117 other wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
10 wisdom & wit from Maurice Maeterlinck
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
8 more quotes from Maria Mitchell
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
14 sayings from Ogden Nash
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
12 quotes from Malcolm Forbes
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
4 more quotes from Henry Drummond
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.
10 more quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
22 other quotes from Samuel Richardson
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
2 more quotes from Eustace Budgell
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
5 other quotes from Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
14 other wisdom & wit from Ogden Nash
Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
10 views from Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
4 thoughts from Henry Drummond
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
10 sayings from Maurice Maeterlinck
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
22 quotes from William Feather
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
5 more sayings from Maria Montessori
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
17 other quotes from John Dryden
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
22 more views from William Feather
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
10 quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
5 other quotes from Irving Babbitt
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
22 thoughts from William Feather
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
2 views from Francis Hutcheson
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
14 other thoughts from Ogden Nash
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
3 quotes from David O. McKay
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
13 thoughts from Sydney J. Harris
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
3 quotes from Alice Meynell
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
26 other quotes from Theodor Adorno
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
10 quotes from Taylor Caldwell
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
3 sayings from Victoria Woodhull
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
3 wisdom & wit from Victoria Woodhull
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
63 views from Samuel Johnson
If you want to be happy, be.
21 quotes from Leo Tolstoy
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
27 thoughts from Kin Hubbard
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
27 other quotes from Kin Hubbard
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
6 other thoughts from Freddie Mercury
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
2 other quotes from Clara Schumann
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
63 sayings from Samuel Johnson
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
21 more wisdom & wit from Leo Tolstoy
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
5 other views from James Thomson
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
90 other views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
9 wisdom & wit from J. B. Priestley