Happiness Quotes

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Bertrand Russell

Jane Austen

Immanuel Kant

George Orwell

Robert Baden-Powell

Ernest Hemingway

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.

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.

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

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

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Elsa Schiaparelli

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

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

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

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

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!

Character is the basis of happiness, and happiness the sanction of character.

George Santayana

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

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

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

William Saroyan

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

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.