Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

happiness

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. 52 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

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. 12 quotes from William Cowper

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. 22 thoughts from Andre Gide

The will of man is his happiness. 29 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Schiller

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. 98 other quotes from Mark Twain

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. 25 other thoughts from C. S. Lewis

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. 18 more sayings from Baruch Spinoza

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? 52 other wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. 10 more views from Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. 21 quotes from Dale Carnegie

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. 18 wisdom & wit from Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. 3 other wisdom & wit 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 more sayings from Henry Van Dyke

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. 7 thoughts from Joseph Wood Krutch

Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony. 12 wisdom & wit from James Allen

Happiness? No, it's not there for me. 10 sayings from Robert Mapplethorpe

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. 29 more quotes from Friedrich Schiller

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. 2 views from Philip Sidney

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. 2 quotes from Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. 22 more quotes from Andre Gide

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. 2 other wisdom & wit from Monica Edwards

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think. 21 sayings 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 more views 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 more quotes from Gertrude Jekyll

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . 21 more quotes from Dale Carnegie

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. 2 quotes from Cab Calloway

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. 21 views from Jane Austen

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. 75 quotes 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 sayings from William E. Gladstone

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. 46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. 7 other views from Henri Matisse

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. 21 wisdom & wit from Jane Austen

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. 3 other sayings from Sam Levenson

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert

Happiness is always a coincidence. 5 more quotes from Jose Bergamin

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. 7 quotes from Phillips Brooks

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. 46 more quotes from George Santayana

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember. 4 more sayings from Oscar Levant

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. 46 quotes from George Santayana

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. 30 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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

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

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. 3 more quotes from Alfred de Musset

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. 5 sayings from Anwar Sadat

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. 4 views from Holbrook Jackson

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. 8 thoughts from Matthew Arnold

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. 6 more quotes from Alexander Smith

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. 7 other quotes from Herbert Read

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. 4 views 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

To describe happiness is to diminish it. 14 more thoughts from Stendhal

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. 9 other quotes from Walter Savage Landor

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. 2 quotes from F. H. Bradley

When ambition ends, happiness begins. 12 views from Thomas Merton

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 more quotes from Franz Schubert

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 thoughts from Charles Caleb Colton

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 can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. 2 thoughts from Freya Stark

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. 7 other wisdom & wit from Jose Marti

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. 13 thoughts from Dante Alighieri

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. 14 quotes from Stendhal

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. 40 more quotes from William James

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. 36 more quotes from Lord Byron

Beauty is the promise of happiness. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. 17 thoughts from Plutarch

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. 9 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Storm Jameson

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 other 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 thoughts from Alexandre Dumas

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. 12 other quotes from Thomas Merton

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. 15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will. 20 wisdom & wit from Thomas Aquinas

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. 24 quotes 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 quotes from George Burns

He who avoids complaint invites happiness. 21 quotes from Abu Bakr

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. 3 more sayings 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 views 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 other quotes from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. 30 other 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 more 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 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 sayings 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 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

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls. 2 quotes 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 other quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. 14 other sayings 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 views 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 sayings from Albert Schweitzer

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. 96 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Ernest Dimnet

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. 24 quotes from Carl Sandburg

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 quotes from Anna Pavlova

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. 3 more quotes 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 more quotes from Langston Hughes

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. 73 quotes 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 more views 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 more quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. 14 quotes from Bertolt Brecht

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. 30 quotes from George Washington

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. 9 more thoughts from William S. Burroughs

Happiness is no laughing matter. 5 quotes from Richard Whately

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. 24 more wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. 2 other views from Joyce Grenfell

Happiness lies first of all in health. 6 more thoughts 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 sayings from Rosalia de Castro

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation. 5 other quotes from Amy Lowell

Independence is happiness. 14 sayings from Susan B. Anthony

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. 73 more quotes from Victor Hugo

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. 3 more quotes 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 more wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. 3 other quotes from Robert Baden-Powell

The right to happiness is fundamental. 5 sayings from Anna Pavlova

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. 7 views from Jeremy Bentham

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 sayings from Victor Hugo

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. 29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. 6 more wisdom & wit from William Morris

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. 6 quotes from Liberty Hyde Bailey

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. 16 quotes from Henny Youngman

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. 17 other quotes from Leo Buscaglia

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. 27 quotes from James Madison

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. 5 sayings from Tom Wilson

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy? 105 other 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 other thoughts from Maxim Gorky

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. 2 other quotes from Hugh Walpole

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have. 5 views from Tom Wilson

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. 50 other views from Robert Frost

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. 2 other sayings from William Cobbett

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. 4 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 sayings from William Dean Howells

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 quotes from Ring Lardner

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 2 sayings from Frank Norris

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. 42 wisdom & wit from Josh Billings

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. 21 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Anthony Trollope

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. 81 more sayings from William Shakespeare

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. 6 views from Leo Rosten

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. 13 other sayings from Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. 70 more quotes from Thomas Jefferson

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. 11 sayings 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 more quotes from Josh Billings

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. 4 wisdom & wit from David Brainerd

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. 70 other views from Thomas Jefferson

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. 5 other quotes from Agnes Repplier

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. 13 other quotes 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 other quotes 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 quotes from Marguerite Duras

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. 20 other quotes 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 quotes 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 other wisdom & wit from Mary Wollstonecraft

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. 20 thoughts from Herbert Spencer

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. 8 wisdom & wit from Hosea Ballou

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. 5 quotes from Henry Fielding

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. 4 other thoughts 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 quotes from Hosea Ballou

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. 70 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action. 3 quotes from Madame de Stael

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. 11 thoughts from William Ellery Channing

The secret of happiness is something to do. 17 wisdom & wit from John Burroughs

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. 9 wisdom & wit from Anthony Trollope

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 wisdom & wit from Charlie Chaplin

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. 25 more views from Charles Baudelaire

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. 45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. 135 quotes 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 thoughts from Honore de Balzac

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. 11 wisdom & wit from John Stuart Mill

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid. 2 more thoughts from Thomas Hood

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. 45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. 24 views from Joseph Addison

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. 3 thoughts from Isaac D'Israeli

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 thoughts from Honore de Balzac

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. 45 thoughts from Bertrand Russell

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. 2 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 sayings from Bertrand Russell

Happiness does not consist in self-love. 2 other quotes from Joseph Butler

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. 6 more thoughts 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 views from Daphne du Maurier

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. 11 other 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 other 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 thoughts from Bertrand Russell

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. 43 sayings from Alexander Pope

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. 45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. 45 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 views 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 quotes from Karl Marx

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. 33 more thoughts from Thomas Huxley

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. 7 sayings from Sydney Smith

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half. 3 quotes 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 more quotes from Helen Keller

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. 18 thoughts from Pearl S. Buck

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. 47 wisdom & wit from George Orwell

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. 12 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 more quotes 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 views 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 views 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 other views from Martha Washington

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. 57 other sayings from Blaise Pascal

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. 9 more 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 other wisdom & wit from Sydney Smith

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. 47 quotes 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 quotes from Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. 31 other quotes from Helen Keller

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. 58 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. 2 wisdom & wit 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 more wisdom & wit from Ashley Montagu

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. 31 thoughts from Helen Keller

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. 17 more quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. 4 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Adam Smith

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. 15 quotes from Pierre Corneille

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. 45 thoughts from Aldous Huxley

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. 117 more wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. 10 other sayings from Arthur Ashe

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 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. 2 more wisdom & wit from Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. 32 more quotes 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 views from Hermann Hesse

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. 32 wisdom & wit from Henry Ford

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. 19 wisdom & wit from Carl Jung

To buy happiness is to sell soul. 16 quotes from Douglas Horton

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. 9 quotes from George Sand

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 sayings 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 other thoughts 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 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 other quotes 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Iris Murdoch

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. 18 other quotes 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 thoughts from Mary Baker Eddy

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. 18 other wisdom & wit from Don Marquis

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. 18 quotes from Marcel Proust

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. 5 sayings 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 views from Franz Kafka

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. 9 other 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 more sayings 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 thoughts from Andre Maurois

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. 14 sayings from Andre Maurois

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. 7 more quotes from Walter Benjamin

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. 2 quotes from John Mason Brown

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. 31 wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer

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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Samuel Richardson

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. 2 quotes from Eustace Budgell

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. 26 more quotes from Jean de la Bruyere

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. 5 more views from Ingrid Bergman

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. 14 more quotes from Ogden Nash

Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence. 10 more quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. 4 views 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 quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. 22 sayings from William Feather

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. 5 other views from Maria Montessori

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. 17 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 thoughts 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 more 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 quotes from Irving Babbitt

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. 22 quotes from William Feather

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. 2 quotes from Francis Hutcheson

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. 14 quotes from Ogden Nash

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. 10 more quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. 8 quotes from Maria Mitchell

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. 4 more views from Henry Drummond

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. 12 other quotes from Malcolm Forbes

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 quotes from Ogden Nash

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. 63 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from J. B. Priestley

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. 3 wisdom & wit from David O. McKay

Happiness is a direction, not a place. 13 other sayings 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 quotes from Theodor Adorno

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world. 10 more views from Taylor Caldwell

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. 3 quotes 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 other thoughts 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 sayings from Samuel Johnson

If you want to be happy, be. 21 wisdom & wit from Leo Tolstoy

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. 90 more thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. 27 views from Kin Hubbard

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. 27 more wisdom & wit from Kin Hubbard

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! 6 sayings from Freddie Mercury

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. 2 more thoughts 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 more quotes from Samuel Johnson

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. 21 quotes 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 other sayings from Samuel Johnson

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. 5 quotes from James Thomson

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. 90 more wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. 3 other views 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 thoughts from Alphonse de Lamartine

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. 28 other quotes 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 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. 4 views 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 thoughts from Lillie Langtry

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success. 5 wisdom & wit from Michael Landon

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. 15 other wisdom & wit from Desiderius Erasmus

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. 11 other 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 sayings 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 more views from Leigh Hunt

The happiness of society is the end of government. 18 more wisdom & wit from John Adams

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. 3 wisdom & wit from Jonathan Edwards

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. 6 sayings from Rutherford B. Hayes

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. 3 sayings 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 quotes from Denis Diderot