Happiness Quotes

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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.

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

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

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

William Saroyan

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

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Jacques Prévert

If you want external happiness, it can be an elusive desire. Internal happiness needs only to be revealed. It is not elusive because it is within you. It is your treasure. If you take someone else's treasure, it is stealing, but if you turn to your own, it is not. Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us

Jonathan Mayhew

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

William Wilberforce

To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan,
The tender for another's pain;
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

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

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

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

I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Mary Baker Eddy

Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert G. Ingersoll

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Daphne du Maurier