HAPPINESS QUOTES

• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.
  ~ Kalidasa ~
• God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• But be, as you have been, my happiness...
  ~ Randall Jarrell ~
• Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
  ~ Jane Austen ~
• The secret of happiness is something to do.
  ~ John Burroughs ~
• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
  ~ Jane Austen ~
• Mood is a transformation of the mind with the action we see & if someone and something pleases us than heart pumps blood of happiness through the veins.
  ~ Norbu Dorji ~
• I learned about life; It is sadness. I learned about happiness; It is madness. I learned about pain; It is reality... And then I learned about love; It is futility.
  ~ Khayelihle Bongiswa Gamedze ~
• Happiness is not an emotion its a color a few people use to paint their lives.
  ~ Raahima Muqaddas ~
• Happiness comes and goes but it depends on us how long we want it to stay.
  ~ Oluwatoba Abiodun-aleja ~
• Every sadness there is a happiness.
  ~ Evy Lorix ~
• Don't spend your time on people who don't deserve it. You're always your own source of happiness and thus don't make other people your priority but rather you yourself.
  ~ Miriam Onyancha ~
• Never try to find happiness as life has its own flow.
  ~ Satyaprajna Das ~
• You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
  ~ William Blake ~
• When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
  ~ Aldous Huxley ~
• To fill the hour-that is happiness.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.
  ~ Jane Austen ~
• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
• The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
  ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
• The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
  ~ James Oppenheim ~
• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
  ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
  ~ Charlotte Brontë ~
• No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
  ~ Jonathan Swift ~
• Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
  ~ Don Marquis ~
• Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by product of other activities.
  ~ Aldous Huxley ~
• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
  ~ William Butler Yeats ~
• Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
  ~ Henry Van Dyke ~
• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
  ~ Alexander Pope ~
• It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
  ~ Desiderius Erasmus ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
  ~ Wendell Willkie ~
• 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.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• 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.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• 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.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• 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.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
  ~ Dionne Warwick ~
• Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
  ~ Dionne Warwick ~
• The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
  ~ Hannah Arendt ~
• What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
  ~ Andre Gide ~
• Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
  ~ Andre Gide ~
• Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
  ~ Robert Orben ~
• I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.
  ~ Michael J. Fox ~
• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
  ~ Michael J. Fox ~
• I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.
  ~ Michael J. Fox ~
• One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
  ~ William Feather ~
• Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
  ~ William Feather ~
• One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
  ~ William Feather ~
• Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
  ~ William Feather ~
• Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.
  ~ Maurice Sendak ~
• I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
  ~ Maurice Sendak ~
• Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.
  ~ Maurice Sendak ~
• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
  ~ Gary Vaynerchuk ~
• People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
  ~ Gary Vaynerchuk ~
• The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
  ~ Jesse Ventura ~
• There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
  ~ Denis Diderot ~
• Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
  ~ Carl Jung ~
• The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
  ~ Carl Jung ~