Happiness Quotes: Inspiration for a Joyful Life (Page 2)

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

Dolley Madison, First Lady

"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Happiness is a journey, not a destination"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance"

George Orwell, Author

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse"

Adam Smith, Economist

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth"

William Blake, Poet

"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race"

David Wilmot, Activist

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible"

Marcel Proust, Author

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

George Sand, Novelist

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

Jacques Prevert, Poet

"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification"

Herman Hesse, Author

"God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch"

Ogden Nash, Poet

"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

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