Happiness Quotes

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

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

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

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

William Wilberforce

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.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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

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

George Santayana

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

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Diogenes Laërtius

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Eugenio Montale

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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.

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