Happiness Quotes & Sayings

~ Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ~

Joseph Butler

~ Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ 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

~ Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. ~

Napoleon Hill

~ The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. ~

Mortimer Adler

~ True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ~

Joseph Addison

~ There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy ~

Joyce Grenfell

~ Yes, things happen for a reason, but the key to true happiness is figuring out that reason. ~

Sharon Abel

~ Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ~

Dale Carnegie

~ Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. ~

Logan Smith

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ Money may not necessarily buy you all your happiness but it definitely improves many of your issues and challenges including who wants to marry you or at least wants to spend time with you. ~

Virendra Giri

~ 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

~ Happiness is a state of defiance. ~

The Dispatch

~ A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. ~

Langston Hughes

~ There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. ~

Charles Darwin

~ f there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness. ~

Voltaire

~ Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. ~

E. F. Schumacher

~ A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained. ~

James Madison

~ 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

~ True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~

Helen Keller

~ Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness. ~

Karen Nave

~ It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ~

Hugo Black

~ Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~

Ingrid Bergman

~ There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. ~

Henry Ford

~ To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. ~

John Dewey

~ Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~

Francesca Reigler

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