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 ~
• Life will not be pleasurable if we don't embrace the good and the bad sides. We can not tell the difference between pleasure and pain if we have not felt both. Experience gives us knowledge and it is left for us to decide what we need it for. Good and evil are both at our disposal and will always bow to our choices. The reason man's need is insatiable is because happiness has no limit. The more something makes us happy, the more we crave for it.
  ~ Lil Destar ~
• In order to play with the kids, I had to put aside my maturity and allow the childish nature in me to completely possess me. And once again, I was able to experience the kind of happiness I haven't felt since I became an adult, since life took away my innocence. What a beautiful way to start the new year!
  ~ Lil Destar ~
• I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
  ~ Laurence Sterne ~
• When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
  ~ Emily Blunt ~
• Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
  ~ Carrie Underwood ~
• Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
  ~ Jason Mraz ~
• One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
  ~ Rita Mae Brown ~
• 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!
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
  ~ Nicki Minaj ~
• My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
  ~ Nicki Minaj ~
• I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
  ~ Nicki Minaj ~
• So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
  ~ Nicki Minaj ~
• False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
  ~ Charles De Montesquieu ~
• False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
  ~ Charles De Montesquieu ~
• There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
  ~ Miguel De Unamuno ~
• I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• Happiness seems made to be shared.
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
  ~ Godfrey Reggio ~
• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
  ~ Irving Babbitt ~
• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
  ~ Irving Babbitt ~
• No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
  ~ Christian Nestell Bovee ~
• 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 ~
• And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.
  ~ Jamie Foxx ~
• Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
  ~ Thomas Szasz ~
• Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
  ~ Douglas Horton ~
• To buy happiness is to sell soul.
  ~ Douglas Horton ~
• Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
  ~ Princess Diana ~
• Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
  ~ Princess Diana ~
• I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
  ~ Bethenny Frankel ~
• I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
  ~ Bethenny Frankel ~
• Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
  ~ Sarah Mclachlan ~
• The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
  ~ Frederick Douglass ~
• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
  ~ James Hillman ~
• Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
  ~ James Hillman ~
• When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
  ~ Arthur Ashe ~
• To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
  ~ John Dewey ~