Happiness Quotes

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Walter Benjamin

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

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

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

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

Charles Spurgeon

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

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.

Every body and every thing conspire to make me as contented as possible in it; yet I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life. I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learnt, 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, wheresoever we go.

Martha Washington

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Variant translation: To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status … What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Maria Montessori

A word of caution: people will tell you that success can't buy you happiness. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

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

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

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

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

William Cobbett

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

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

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

Daphne du Maurier

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

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

Frédéric Chopin

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.

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

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.