happiness
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
24 more wisdom & wit from Carl Sandburg
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
9 more wisdom & wit from Walter Savage Landor
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
2 views from Freya Stark
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
7 thoughts from Jose Marti
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
13 quotes from Dante Alighieri
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 sayings from Franz Schubert
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
2 quotes from F. H. Bradley
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
56 views from Khalil Gibran
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
4 other quotes from William J. H. Boetcker
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
12 quotes from Thomas Merton
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
14 more views from Stendhal
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 views from Charles Caleb Colton
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 wisdom & wit from William James
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
36 more sayings 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 sayings from Plutarch
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
9 other views 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 quotes from Storm Jameson
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
75 quotes from Aristotle
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
5 more wisdom & wit from Douglas William Jerrold
Happiness is an inside job.
14 thoughts from William Arthur Ward
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
21 sayings 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 quotes 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 views from Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.
20 views from Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
6 thoughts from Zhuangzi
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
24 wisdom & wit 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 other sayings from George Burns
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
21 more quotes from Abu Bakr
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
3 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 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 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
2 wisdom & wit from Arthur Rubinstein
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
13 other views from Chanakya
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
2 more 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 quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
10 wisdom & wit from Heraclitus
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
75 more thoughts from Aristotle
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
14 other quotes 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 quotes 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 more views from Albert Schweitzer
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
96 other quotes 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 views from Ernest Dimnet
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
5 wisdom & wit from Anna Pavlova
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
3 more views 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Jacques Prevert
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
3 sayings 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 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
14 other sayings from Bertolt Brecht
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
30 more thoughts 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 thoughts from Richard Whately
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
24 quotes from Ayn Rand
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
2 wisdom & wit from Joyce Grenfell
Happiness lies first of all in health.
6 thoughts from George William Curtis
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
12 other 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 wisdom & wit from Rosalia de Castro
Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.
5 more sayings from Amy Lowell
Independence is happiness.
14 more wisdom & wit from Susan B. Anthony
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
73 wisdom & wit 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 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 quotes from Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
7 views from Jeremy Bentham
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
29 other views from Arthur Schopenhauer
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
3 more thoughts from Robert Baden-Powell
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
2 other quotes from Joyce Grenfell
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
7 quotes from Jeremy Bentham
The right to happiness is fundamental.
5 quotes from Anna Pavlova
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 sayings 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
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
16 quotes from Henny Youngman
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
6 other wisdom & wit from Liberty Hyde Bailey
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
27 more quotes from James Madison
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
2 quotes from Frank Norris
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
6 more quotes from William Morris
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 more quotes from Ring Lardner
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
17 thoughts from Leo Buscaglia
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
5 quotes from Tom Wilson
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
105 more views 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 quotes from Maxim Gorky
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
2 sayings from Hugh Walpole
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
5 more thoughts from Tom Wilson
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
50 other thoughts from Robert Frost
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
2 other wisdom & wit from William Cobbett
Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
4 quotes from Channing Pollock
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
2 views from Patrick Duffy
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
11 views from Clare Boothe Luce
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
6 more quotes from Liberty Hyde Bailey
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
3 sayings from William Dean Howells
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
42 other sayings from Josh Billings
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
21 quotes 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 more views from Anthony Trollope
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
81 thoughts from William Shakespeare
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
6 sayings from Leo Rosten
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
13 sayings from Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
70 other quotes from Thomas Jefferson
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
11 quotes 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 views from Josh Billings
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
4 more quotes from David Brainerd
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
70 views from Thomas Jefferson
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
5 more 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 thoughts 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 thoughts 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 other quotes from Marguerite Duras
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
20 more 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 more wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
18 quotes from Emile M. Cioran
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
6 views from Mary Wollstonecraft
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
20 more views from Herbert Spencer
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
8 more thoughts 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 views 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 other thoughts 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 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
3 other sayings 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 quotes from William Ellery Channing
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 sayings from Charlie Chaplin
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
The secret of happiness is something to do.
17 other quotes from John Burroughs
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
9 views from Anthony Trollope
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
45 views from Bertrand Russell
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
24 other quotes from Joseph Addison
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
3 more quotes from Isaac D'Israeli
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
45 other views from Bertrand Russell
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
11 quotes from John Stuart Mill
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
2 more views from Thomas Hood
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
135 more wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Honore de Balzac
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 more quotes from Honore de Balzac
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
45 more wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
2 thoughts 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 more quotes from Bertrand Russell
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
2 views from Joseph Butler
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
52 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
6 more views from Bernard Meltzer
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
6 quotes from Benjamin Spock
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
2 quotes from Daphne du Maurier
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
11 views 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 more views from Audrey Hepburn
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
52 sayings 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 quotes from Bertrand Russell
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
43 wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
45 views 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 quotes from Norman Vincent Peale
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
6 wisdom & wit from Bernard Meltzer
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
21 views from Karl Marx
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
33 quotes from Thomas Huxley
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
7 other quotes from Sydney Smith
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
3 more thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit from Helen Keller
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
18 quotes from Pearl S. Buck
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
47 more views from George Orwell
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
12 wisdom & wit 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 other 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 views from Adam Smith
Happiness seems made to be shared.
15 views from Pierre Corneille
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
15 other thoughts 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 quotes from Martha Washington
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
57 views from Blaise Pascal
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
9 sayings from Charles Spurgeon
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
7 more sayings from Sydney Smith
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
47 more 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 more views 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 views from Henry Ward Beecher
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
2 other 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 quotes from Jacques Yves Cousteau
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
59 thoughts 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 other quotes from Ashley Montagu
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 wisdom & wit from Adam Smith
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
17 other quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
4 sayings from Ben Jonson
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
15 quotes from Pierre Corneille
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
31 sayings from Helen Keller
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
10 wisdom & wit from Arthur Ashe
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
32 more sayings from Henry Ford
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
16 quotes from Douglas Horton
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
115 other wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
9 more sayings from George Sand
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 sayings from Hermann Hesse
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 views from Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
2 quotes from John Mason Brown
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
45 views from Aldous Huxley
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
31 more quotes from Eric Hoffer
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
117 other wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
19 sayings from Carl Jung
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
32 wisdom & wit from Henry Ford
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 more views from Henry David Thoreau
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 quotes from George Sand
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
6 thoughts 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 other quotes 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 views from Thomas Bulfinch
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
5 more views from Red Skelton
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
16 quotes 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 sayings 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 other quotes 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 views from Mary Baker Eddy
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
18 quotes from Don Marquis
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
18 more thoughts from Marcel Proust
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
5 quotes 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 other wisdom & wit 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 more 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 thoughts 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 more sayings from Andre Maurois
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
14 quotes from Andre Maurois
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
7 thoughts from Walter Benjamin
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 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Richardson
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
2 other quotes from Eustace Budgell
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
26 thoughts from Jean de la Bruyere
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
5 quotes from Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
14 sayings from Ogden Nash
Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
10 wisdom & wit from Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
4 more 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 other thoughts from Maurice Maeterlinck
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
22 more views from William Feather
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
5 more quotes from Maria Montessori
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
17 other sayings 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 quotes 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 views 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 sayings from William Feather
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
2 sayings from Francis Hutcheson
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
14 quotes from Ogden Nash
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
4 wisdom & wit from Henry Drummond
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
10 views from Maurice Maeterlinck
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
8 quotes from Maria Mitchell
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
12 other views 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 wisdom & wit 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 more views 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from David O. McKay
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
13 other quotes from Sydney J. Harris
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
3 more thoughts 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 thoughts from Taylor Caldwell
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
3 thoughts 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 more quotes from Samuel Johnson
If you want to be happy, be.
21 other views 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 more sayings from Kin Hubbard
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
27 wisdom & wit from Kin Hubbard
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
6 quotes from Freddie Mercury
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
2 views 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 wisdom & wit 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 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
5 sayings from James Thomson
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
3 more quotes 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 sayings from Alphonse de Lamartine
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
28 more thoughts from Napoleon Hill
Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
30 other sayings 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 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Michael Landon
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
15 more sayings from Desiderius Erasmus
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
11 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 more wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
6 views from Leigh Hunt
The happiness of society is the end of government.
18 views from John Adams
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
3 quotes from Jonathan Edwards
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
6 views from Rutherford B. Hayes
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
16 more quotes from Denis Diderot
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
9 quotes from John Dewey
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
3 more quotes from Alexander Alekhine
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
52 quotes from George Eliot
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
98 other wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
The will of man is his happiness.
29 more thoughts from Friedrich Schiller
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
21 wisdom & wit from Dale Carnegie
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
12 more thoughts from William Cowper
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
22 wisdom & wit from Andre Gide
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
52 sayings from Albert Camus
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
25 more sayings from C. S. Lewis
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
52 views 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 views 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 other views from C. S. Lewis
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
10 sayings from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
21 thoughts from Dale Carnegie
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
18 sayings 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 other wisdom & wit from Henry Van Dyke
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
7 more sayings from Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.
12 other wisdom & wit from James Allen
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
10 more thoughts from Robert Mapplethorpe
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
29 other thoughts from Friedrich Schiller
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
2 quotes 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 quotes from Andre Gide
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
2 quotes from Monica Edwards
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.
21 other quotes from Dale Carnegie
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
21 wisdom & wit from Dale Carnegie
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
10 other quotes 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 thoughts from Gertrude Jekyll
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 quotes from Jane Austen
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
75 more 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Henri Matisse
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
21 other quotes from Jane Austen
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
3 other quotes from Sam Levenson
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
30 other sayings from Gustave Flaubert
Happiness is always a coincidence.
5 quotes from Jose Bergamin
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
7 sayings from Phillips Brooks
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
46 quotes from George Santayana
Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.
4 views from Oscar Levant
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
46 thoughts from George Santayana
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
30 sayings from Gustave Flaubert
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
9 other quotes from Willa Cather
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
3 sayings 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
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
4 other views from Holbrook Jackson
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
6 thoughts from Alexander Smith
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
8 quotes from Matthew Arnold
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
30 sayings from Gustave Flaubert
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
3 more thoughts from Alfred de Musset
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
5 wisdom & wit from Anwar Sadat
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
7 sayings from Herbert Read
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle