Happiness Quotes

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Immanuel Kant

Jane Austen

Stendhal

Ernest Hemingway

Bertrand Russell

Robert Baden-Powell

George Orwell

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Robert Baden-Powell

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Lawrence Lovasik

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Happiness, to some, elation;
Is, to others, mere stagnation.

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

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds wherever we go.

Martha Washington

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

William Saroyan

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.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

My darling girl, Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart - and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

It's an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.