Happiness Quotes
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago. (Quote by - George Arnold)
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
The greatest happiness of the greatest number. (Quote by - Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria)
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. (Quote by - Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria)
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. (Quote by - Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria)
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. (Quote by - Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria)
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? (Quote by - Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria)
Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
All who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
There comes For ever something between us and what We deem our happiness. (Quote by - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron))
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? (Quote by - Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)
The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart. (Quote by - John Vance Cheney)
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Happiness seems made to be shared. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall! (Quote by - William Cowper)
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. (Quote by - George Sheehan)
Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are (Quote by - John B. Sheerin)
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. (Quote by - William H. Sheldon)
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security. (Quote by - E. R. Stettinius, Jr.)
Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple—yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is not given but exchanged. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is not always measured in smiles. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is acceptance. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. (Quote by - J. Donald Walters)
Happiness is an inside job. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more. (Quote by - Greg Webster)
Happiness is being married to your best friend. (Quote by - Barbara Weeks)
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile. (Quote by - Alma Guillermoprieto)
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. (Quote by - Barry Duncan)
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. (Quote by - Henri-Frederic Amiel)
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung. (Quote by - Prof F A P Aveling)
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. (Quote by - E F Benson)
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. (Quote by - C C Colton)
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. (Quote by - William Feather)
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. (Quote by - Jerry Gellis)
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. (Quote by - Roger L'Estrange)
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. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
He is rich who owes nothing. (Quote by - Hungarian Proberb)
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. (Quote by - Storm Jameson)
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads. (Quote by - Nikolaus Lenus)
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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. (Quote by - Maurice Materlinck)
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. (Quote by - Montesquieu)
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead. (Quote by - Charles M Schwab)
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. (Quote by - C P Snow)
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. (Quote by - Booth Tarkington)
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. (Quote by - Anonymous)
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. (Quote by - Anonymous)
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery. (Quote by - C C Colton)
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. (Quote by - Sidney Madwed)
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. (Quote by - Sharon Salzberg)
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo. (Quote by - Diogenes Laertius)
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. (Quote by - Ursula K. Leguin)
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. . (Quote by - John Templeton)
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. (Quote by - Margaret Lee Runbeck)
Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. Anne Frank . (Quote by - John B. Sheerin)
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come of thier satisfaction. (Quote by - Paul Acquasanta)
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. (Quote by - Allan K. Chalmers)
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. (Quote by - Democritus)
To live happily is an inward power of the soul. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington (Quote by - Unknown)
Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have. (Quote by - Unknown)
The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. (Quote by - Unknown)
