Happiness Quotes & Sayings

~ Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies. ~

Thomas Gray

~ One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ~

William Feather

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

Karen Nave

~ There is no disease (so destructive) as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge. ~

Chanakya

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

George Sand

~ All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. ~

Jean de la Bruyere

~ Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~

Phillip Brooks

~ Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ~

George Washington

~ It takes a highly intellectual individual to enjoy leisure. . . . Most of us had better count on working. What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement. . . . Few people overwork; plenty overeat, overworry, overdrink. . . . Few realize real joy and happiness of conquest. The basis of mental health for the average adult is more work, provided the work is not mere drudgery ~

Dr. Fay B. Nash

~ Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ I... thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness! ~

William Henry Hudson

~ For there are some people who can live without wild things about them and the earth beneath their feet, and some who cannot. To those of us who, in a city, are always aware of the abused and abased earth below the pavement, walking on the grass, watching the flight of birds, or finding the first spring dandelion are the rights as old and unalienable as the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are. ~

Louise Dickinson Rich†

~ 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 ~

Ernest Hemingway

~ We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. ~

Maxwell Maltz

~ Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to becomre an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and at yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the sme process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of. ~

Norman Vincent Peale

~ Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later. That’s like life: it is so precious because death is always beckoning. ~

Francis Bacon

~ We can give thanks for our health and happiness, the support we receive from our families and friends, some wonderful memories and the excitement that each new day brings. ~

Queen Elizabeth II

~ The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility. ~

Francis Bacon

~ True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. ~

Henry James

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after death. ~

Buddhist Dhammapada

~ If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ~

Arnold Bennett

~ I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward. ~

William Dean Howells

~ Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~

Douglas William Jerrold

~ Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. ~

Japanese saying

~ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ~

Unknown

~ 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 become corrupt ~

Samuel Johnson

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