Quotes about Happiness

1. "Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune."   Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

2. "One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks."  Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

3. "We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."  Fran?ois, Du de La Rochefoucauld

4. "We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."  Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

5. "Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?" Letitia Elizabeth Landon

6. "Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open." Rose Lane

7. "The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment." Doug Larson

8. "Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness." Gustave Le Bon

9. "Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember." Oscar LeVant

10. "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln

11. "We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart." Abraham Lincoln

12. "For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair." Ann Morrow Lindbergh

13. "In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color." Horace Mann

14. "Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe." Orison Swett Marden

15. "Experience praises the most happy is the one who made the most people happy." Karl Marx

16. "Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clear Are the most choice companions we have here." William Mather

17. "The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised." H. C. Mattern

18. "The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past." Andre Maurois

19. "The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves." Andre Maurois

20. "I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now." Peter McWilliams

21. "One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways." Peter McWilliams

22. "Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." Bernard Melzer

23. "Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get." Bernard Meltzer

24. "Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull." H. L. Mencken

25. "Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so." John Stuart Mill

26. "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them." John Stuart Mill

27. " Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far." John Milton

28. "If you find some happiness inside yourself, you'll start findin' it in lot of other places too." Gladiola Montana

29. "I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you." J. Kenfield Morley

30. "Happiness comes when you believe in whatyou are doing,know whatyou are doing, and love what you are doing." Brian Tracy

31. "Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction. We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside ? this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described. At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present." Malcolm Muggeridge

32. "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self." Jean Iris Murdoch

33. "There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all." Ogden Nash

34. "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."Cythina Nelms

35. "If this world afford true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered." Alfred Edward Newton

36. "If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation." Anais Nin

37. "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness." George Orwell

38. "It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself." Thomas Paine

39. "All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end." Blaise Pascal

40. "The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older." William Lyon Phelps

41. "The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character]." William Lyon Phelps

42. "Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things." Plutarch

43. "That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting." Plutarch

44. "The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements." Plutarch

45. "Happiness is a way station between too much and too little." Channing Pollock

46. "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

47. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller

48. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." Marcus Aurelius

49. "Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results." Dennis Waitley

 

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