- Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch
- How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing
- Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
- Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others. – Happiness Quotes
Henry Drummond
- Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. – Happiness Quotes
Hosea Ballou
- Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal
- What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
- Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
William Feather
- Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. – Happiness Quotes
Pearl S. Buck
- Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. – Happiness Quotes
Linus Pauling
- The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Inge
- It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. – Happiness Quotes
Desiderius Erasmus
- It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden
- We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
- Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy Rooney
- If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier
- Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Frank McCourt
- The secret of happiness is something to do.
John Burroughs
- Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being ofworth and dignity.
Rollo May
- I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger
- Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy
- In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
Leslie Caron
- The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
- A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
- Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
- Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
Frederick William Faber
- If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
David Brainerd
- Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Sarah McLachlan
- Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch
- There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain
- Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Friedrich Schiller
- Happiness is no laughing matter.
Richard Whately
- The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
- When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.
Malcolm Forbes
Happiness Quotes 101 – 200
- You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.
Ernie Banks
- Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
Swami Sivananda
- It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas Moore
- Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Julian Casablancas
- Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
- Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
- When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Joseph Roux
- There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot
- A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell
- Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock
- Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
- To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie