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Happiness Quotes

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

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

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Madame de Rieux

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Leigh Hunt

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road back to happiness.

Tina Dayton

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Anais Nin

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

Elbert Hubbard

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Samuel Johnson

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Immanuel Kant

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

Albert Camus

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