Happiness Quotes

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore

Happiness, Through, Often Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

Happiness, Made, Ready Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Happiness, Others, Cause Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, Harmony

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

Happiness, Future, True

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness, Without, May Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Happiness, Ourselves, Depends The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness, Yourself, Catch Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker

Happy, Happiness, Yourself Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

Attitude, Happiness, Mental It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon

Happiness, Enjoy, Makes Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

Happiness, Rarest

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happiness, New, True

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce

Happiness, Money, While Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Bernard Meltzer

Happiness, Must, Enjoy Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness, Health, Bad A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis

Happiness, Everything, Else If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach

Happiness, Else, Problem 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

Happy, Happiness, Others Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht

Happiness, After, Everyone There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

Happiness, Power, Beyond Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness, Goal Love is trembling happiness.

Khalil Gibran

Happiness, Trembling There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain

Happiness, Keep, Unhappy

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell

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Baruch Spinoza

Happiness, Quality, Object But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus

Happiness, Simple, Between True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness, Future, True Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw

Happiness, Must, Done There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand

Happiness, Loved 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

Happy, Happiness, Pain A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

Happiness, Best, Ever Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Marquis de Sade

Happiness, Ideal The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Pain, Enemies

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

Happiness, Wish, Leave The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Greatest, Person Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy Rooney

Happiness, Happens, Depends Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

Happiness, Makes, Height Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

Happiness, State, Values All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron

Happiness, Must, Win Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus

Happiness, Share, Forgiven Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak Chopra

Happiness, Happenings, Resisted Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch

Happiness, Yourself, Speak Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Jose Marti

Happiness, Knowledge, Through Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten

Happiness, Capable, Brains Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach

Happiness, Friend, Wish Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Napoleon Hill

Happiness, Doing, Found Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness, Lie, Does Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Ogden Nash

Happiness, Scratch, Itch An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child

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Sydney J. Harris

Happiness, Place, Direction The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

Happiness, Without, Secret Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness, Another, Misery Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas

Happiness, Must, Fight You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts

Happy, Happiness, Person Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Julian Casablancas

Happiness, Desire, Individual 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

Happy, Happiness, Yourself It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

Happiness, Find, Easy The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Health, Greatest Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Friedrich Schiller

Happy, Change, Cannot Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Peter Drucker

Happiness, Mind, Duty Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal

Happiness, God, Without True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson

Happiness, True, Friends To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness, Without, Part One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown

Happiness, Bad, Memory When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes

Happiness 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, May, Perfect

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

Happiness, Wisdom, Depends Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock

Happiness, Feel, Doing Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
David Lee Roth

Happiness, Money, Enough Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

Happiness, Between, Interval What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia

Happiness, Secret, Call Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett

Happy, Happiness, After Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant

Happiness, Remember, Experience

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois

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Joseph Wood Krutch

Happiness, Gratitude, Kind There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley

Happiness, Boring, Else Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Sarah McLachlan

Happiness, Long, Enough Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness, Virtue, Reward Happiness seems made to be shared.

Pierre Corneille

Happiness, Made, Seems The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu

Happiness, Enjoy, Surprise It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus

Happiness, Point, Willing People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
Lucinda Williams

Happiness, Become, Between Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide

Happiness, Nothing, Memory Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides

Happiness, God, Stay Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Joseph Butler

Happiness, Consist, Does

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

Happiness, Passion Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Adam Smith

Happiness, Finger, Pulse Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

Happiness, Growth, Germ If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Leon Kass

Happiness, Easy, Might To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Douglas Horton

Happiness, Soul, Sell Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France

Happiness, Down, Write The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness, Absence, Mastery If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
David Brainerd

Happiness, Hope, God There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Jose Marti

Happiness, May, Seem Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill

Happiness, Without, Done To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal

Happiness, Describe, Diminish

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold

Happiness, Strangers, Grows Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Sam Levenson

Happiness, Cannot, Pursue Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness, Understand, Able Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Alphonse Karr

Happiness, Avoided, Composed Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand

Happiness, Common, Among 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, Believe, Must

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Linus Pauling

Happiness, Greatest, Curiosity 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

Happiness, Someone, Else Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Frank McCourt

Happiness, Hard, Glow The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley

Happiness, Without, Secret Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Austin O'Malley

Happiness, Quiet, Eye Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Andrei Platonov

Happiness, Come, Meaning There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Alfred de Musset

Day, Happiness, Sorrow The right to happiness is fundamental.

Anna Pavlova

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