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

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.

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

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

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Robert Baden-Powell

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

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Elsa Schiaparelli

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.

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.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

Gertrude Jekyll

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

William Cobbett

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Thomas Traherne

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

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.

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

William Saroyan

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

William Beveridge