Happiness Quotes

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Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Charles Dickens

Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Benjamin Franklin

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

When our king goes out they [French people] fall down and kiss the earth…. Then they go to kissing one another. This is the truest wisdon. They have as much happiness in one year as one Englishman in ten.

Thomas Jefferson

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge is not happiness, and science
But an exchange of ignorance for that
Which is another kind of ignorance.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box. The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities, her mild eyes rolling up and down, wondering to which of these deadly conditions, some of them unpronounceable, she owed her present happiness.

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

Bertrand Russell

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

Charles Dickens

Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.

Henry David Thoreau

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.