Happiness Quotes & Sayings

~ The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. ~

John W. Gardner

~ May your joys be as bright as the morning, your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and your troubles but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. ~

Old English Blessing

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

Jeremy Bentham

~ Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~

Elise Boulding

~ Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~

Thomas Paine

~ Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ~

Pearl S. Buck

~ Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it. ~

Harold S. Geneen

~ Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act nonvirtuously, suffering results. ~

Sakyong Mipham

~ The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ When ambition ends, happiness begins. ~

Thomas Merton

~ No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ~

Mary Wallstonecraft

~ Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. ~

Henrik Ibsen

~ Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Francesca Reigler

~ Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ~

Denis De Rougamont

~ Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. ~

Anthony Hopkins

~ To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ~

Gustave Flaubert

~ The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness ~

Immanuel Kant

~ For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still. ~

Dalai Lama

~ If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech. ~

Thich Nhat Hanh

~ But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~

Albert Camus

~ Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God. ~

Paramahansa Yogananda

~ When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. ~

Dr. Samuel Johnson

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

George William Curtis

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