Happiness Quotes

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

^{Albert Camus}

115. To forget oneself is to be happy.

^{Robert Louis Stevenson}

116. Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

^{Leo Rosten}

117. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

^{Dalai Lama}

118. Happiness does not consist in self-love.

^{Joseph Butler}

119. Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

^{Sam Levenson}

120. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

^{F. H. Bradley}

121. That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

^{Lupe Fiasco}

122. Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

^{Alphonse Karr}

123. If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

^{Leon Kass}

124. Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

^{John Dryden}

125. Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

^{Richard Bach}

126. Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

^{Robert Staughton Lynd}

127. True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

^{Helen Keller}

128. Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

^{Baltasar Gracian}

129. Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

^{Fyodor Dostoevsky}

130. Joys divided are increased.

^{Josiah Gilbert Holland}

131. A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

^{Joseph Addison}

132. Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

^{Ambrose Bierce}

133. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

^{Jane Austen}

134. Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

^{Bertrand Russell}

135. We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

^{Maurice Maeterlinck}

136. You’ve got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most powerful – and neglected – secret to success and happiness.

^{Percy Ross}

137. Happiness seems made to be shared.

^{Pierre Corneille}

138. Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

^{Andrei Platonov}

139. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

^{Albert Schweitzer}

140. The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

^{Benjamin Franklin}

141. When ambition ends, happiness begins.

^{Thomas Merton}

142. Love is trembling happiness.

^{Khalil Gibran}

143. The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

^{Arthur Schopenhauer}

144. Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

^{Adam Smith}

145. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.

^{Ayn Rand}

146. Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

^{George Burns}

147. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

^{Robert Green Ingersoll}

148. If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

^{Richard Bach}

149. Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

^{Deepak Chopra}

150. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

^{Baruch Spinoza}

151. The right to happiness is fundamental.

^{Anna Pavlova}

152. It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

^{Antoine de Saint-Exupery}

153. I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

^Zhuangzi

154. It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

^{Thomas Jefferson}

155. You can be happy where you are.

^{Joel Osteen}

156. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

^{Gilbert K. Chesterton}

157. For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

^{Anne Morrow Lindbergh}

158. It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

^{Immanuel Kant}

159. To buy happiness is to sell soul.

^{Douglas Horton}

160. Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

^{George Sand}

161. Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

^{Ambrose Bierce}

162. Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

^{Russell M. Nelson}