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 ~
• Always be kind to the person who makes you laugh during your worries and cries with you in your happiness !
  ~ Subha Laxmi Moharana ~
• Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
  ~ Azar Nafisi ~
• Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
  ~ Azar Nafisi ~
• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
  ~ Rollo May ~
• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
  ~ Rollo May ~
• A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
  ~ Theodor Adorno ~
• A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
  ~ Theodor Adorno ~
• Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
  ~ Theodor Adorno ~
• Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• Sometimes we allow our enemy to have victory over us not because we do not like the sound of victory but sometimes defeat gives greater happiness that victory.
  ~ Ola Olawale ~
• If you are a person who lives in your bitter memories, then you are loosing your happiness and peace of mind at the moment.
  ~ Thisarana Arama ~
• Money cannot buy happiness yet its neccesity can never be overemphasized..
  ~ Oyinda Oladeinde ~
• People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
  ~ Carmen Electra ~
• People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
  ~ Carmen Electra ~
• People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
  ~ Carmen Electra ~
• Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
  ~ Jean-jacques Rousseau ~
• We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
  ~ Emma Thompson ~
• We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
  ~ Emma Thompson ~
• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
  ~ Euripides ~
• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
  ~ Euripides ~
• Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
  ~ Euripides ~
• Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
  ~ Euripides ~
• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
  ~ Euripides ~
• Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
  ~ Paulo Coelho ~
• Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
  ~ Paulo Coelho ~
• Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
  ~ Paulo Coelho ~
• The longitivity and good health of a husband's life is directly proportional to the happiness of his wife.
  ~ Jaja Otokini ~
• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
  ~ Immanuel Kant ~
• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
  ~ Immanuel Kant ~
• Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
  ~ Immanuel Kant ~
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  ~ Heraclitus ~
• 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 ~
• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
  ~ Chanakya ~
• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
  ~ Chanakya ~
• There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
  ~ Chanakya ~
• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
  ~ Chanakya ~
• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
  ~ Chanakya ~
• There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
  ~ Epictetus ~
• If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
  ~ Epictetus ~
• If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
  ~ Epictetus ~
• The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
  ~ Epictetus ~
• There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
  ~ Epictetus ~
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~