Happiness Quotes & Sayings

~ The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. ~

William Godwin

~ Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ~

Edward L. Bernays

~ In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it. ~

Rex Reed

~ 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. ~

Maurice Maeterlinck

~ Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. ~

Richard Bach

~ Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. ~

Robert G Ingersoll

~ That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. ~

James Thomson

~ You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~

Albert Camus

~ Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! ~

Amanda Bradley

~ This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays! ~

D.M. Dellinger

~ The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. ~

Jeremy Bentham

~ Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. ~

Mary Cholmondeley

~ Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. ~

Unknown

~ Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness. ~

Andre Gide

~ Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. ~

Robert Brault

~ As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. ~

Joseph Addison

~ 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. ~

Hosea Ballou

~ Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ~

Spike Milligan

~ Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, ~

Joseph Addison

~ Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. ~

Dennis Prager

~ There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. ~

Alexandre Dumas

~ More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. ~

Thomas Traherne

~ I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ~

Martha Washington

~ Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. ~

Plato

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