Happiness Quotes

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

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

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

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

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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

One must never look for happiness. One meets it by the way — but it is always going in the opposite direction.

Isabelle Eberhardt

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Frédéric Chopin

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

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

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.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Winifred Holtby

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

William Cobbett

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for social security, general happiness and the improvement and progress of our race.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves — instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

A man may build and decorate a beautiful house, but it remains for a woman to make a home of it for him. It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

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 moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.