top of page
.png){kind=small}
Happiness Quotes
"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."
13
"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
13
"Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates."
13
"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."
13
"I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness."
13
"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
13
"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."
13
"What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?"
13
"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"
13
"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
13
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
13
"Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared."
13
"Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it."
13
"With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue."
13
"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."
13
"The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground."
13
"Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony."
13
"People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal."
13
"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."
13
"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"
13
"If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it."
13
"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."
13
"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace."
13
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
13
"In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world."
13
"One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing."
13
"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."
13
bottom of page