Happiness Quotes & Sayings

~ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~

Helen Keller 1880

~ When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~

Helen Keller

~ The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. ~

Martha Washington 1731

~ My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~

Robert Ingersoll

~ Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ~

Alice Meynell

~ Happiness or unhappiness is often a matter of choice. ~

Anon xxxx

~ Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ~

Franklin D Roosevelt 1882

~ Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ~

Franklin D Roosevelt 1882

~ Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ~

Alice Meynell

~ The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. ~

Thucydides

~ To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. ~

Robert Muller

~ Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence ~

Aristotle

~ Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others ~

Samuel Johnson

~ For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. ~

Gabriela Sabatini

~ Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~

George William Curtis

~ The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves ~

William Ellery Channing

~ There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved. ~

George Sand

~ Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. ~

Walter Savage Londor

~ Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. ~

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

~ Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental counduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. ~

Laurence J. Peter

~ That action is best which provides the greatest happiness for the greatest number. ~

Francis Hutcheson

~ The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. ~

Martha Washington

~ Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them. ~

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918

~ Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have. ~

Anon

~ Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ~

Aristotle 384BC

~ Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere. ~

Dalai Lama 1935

~ Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. ~

John J. Ingalls

Dalai Lama 1935

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