- Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr
- There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
Aldous Huxley
- Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
- Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade
- People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
Lucinda Williams
- You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis
- There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Alfred de Musset
- There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Jose Marti
- To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Stendhal
- The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
- Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson
- Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
- Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
- To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse
- Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill
- So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington
- The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
William Dean Howells
- It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
- The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
- Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
- To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
- Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
- Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
- Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!
Dita Von Teese
- There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell
- Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
- It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
Jordan Peterson
- Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
- There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
- A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, andwell-being.
James E. Faust
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
- Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
- The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. – Happiness Quotes
Thucydides
- A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose. – Happiness Quotes
Tom Wilson
- Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on. – Happiness Quotes
Carrie Underwood
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- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. – Happiness Quotes
C. S. Lewis
- Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.
Gertrude Stein
- It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
George Foreman
- Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – Happiness Quotes
George Burns
- Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. – Happiness Quotes
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
Beyonce Knowles
- It sounds strange to say, but someone’s bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.
Michy Batshuayi
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri
- All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
- Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. – Happiness Quotes
Democritus
- Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
- There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau
- My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Denzel Washington