Happiness Quotes & Sayings

~ 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

~ 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

~ Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending. ~

Samuel Butler

~ Lifes greatest happiness is to be convinced that we are loved. ~

Victor Hugo

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

George Sand

~ To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? ~

Christopher Hampton

~ We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. ~

Kenichi Fukui

~ I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ~

Edward Gibbon

~ If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. ~

Democritus

~ Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. ~

Og Mandino

~ The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness. ~

Susan Faludi

~ I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ~

Arthur Rimbaud

~ Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. ~

Aeschylus

~ We say those who suffered here ... your suffering is not in vain. We assure you that we, the children of the world, will learn new lessons. We will define the future, not hatred, not bitterness, not alienation. But joy (and) happiness. ~

Andrew Young

~ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness I hope you\'re getting this down ~

Woody Allen

~ Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities. ~

Aristotle

~ Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. ~

Jane Austen

~ ... the greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ~

Martha Washington 1731

~ Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~

Benjamin Disraeli 1804

~ Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietyly, may alight upon you. ~

Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804

~ Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ~

George Santayana 1863

~ 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

~ Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~

Nathaniel Hawthorne

~ 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

~ True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient ~

Seneca

~ The object of living is work, experience, happiness ~

Henry Ford

~ O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. ~

William Cowper

~ To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all. ~

Mark Sullivan

~ There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. ~

Jane Austen

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