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Happiness Quotes
"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
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"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."
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"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
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"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
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"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
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"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
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"I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world."
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"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
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"I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half."
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"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."
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"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience."
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords."
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"I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny."
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"There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid."
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"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."
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"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
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"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
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"Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all."
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"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."
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"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."
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"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
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"Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning."
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"The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness."
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