Happiness Quotes

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose"

"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances"

"Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

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

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Clergyman

"Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment"

J. Donald Walters, Author

"I don't know the true meaning of happiness"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

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

Charles Sumner, Politician

"The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground"

Paula Cole, Musician

"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak"

August Strindberg, Dramatist

"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people"

Anwar Sadat, Statesman

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing"

George A. Sheehan, Writer

"The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose"

John Stossel, Journalist

"Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have"

Tom Wilson, Cartoonist

"The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it"

William Feather, Author

"I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness"

Ted Nugent, Musician

"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose"

Tom Wilson, Cartoonist

"The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted"

Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman

"Happiness is no laughing matter"

Richard Whately, Writer

"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming"

Linda Evans, Actress

"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art"

Clara Schumann, Musician

"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person"

William Feather, Author

"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow"

Frank McCourt, Author

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

David Brainerd, Clergyman

"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

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