Happiness Quotes: Inspiration for a Joyful Life (Page 16)

"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable"

"If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness"

"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

"Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work"

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy"

Joyce Grenfell, Actress

"Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself"

James Van Der Zee, Photographer

"Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever"

Peabo Bryson, Musician

"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage"

Laura Schlessinger, Writer

"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention"

Greg Anderson, Athlete

"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him"

Marguerite Duras, Novelist

"We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men"

Francis Wright, Activist

"Independence is happiness"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star"

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Lawyer

"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected"

William Hall, Soldier

"I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful"

Christina Milian, Musician

"Money cannot buy happiness"

Annni-Frid Lyngstad

"Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness"

Cab Calloway, Musician

"You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness"

Percy Ross, Businessman

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

Leslie Caron, Actress

"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

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

John Buchan, Politician

"The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"

Frank Norris, Novelist

"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything"

Norman Lear, Producer

"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool"

John Mason Good, Scientist

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do"

Freya Stark, Writer

"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years"

Ausonius, Poet

"Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it"

Rachel Field, Novelist

"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition"

Arthur Rubinstein, Musician

"The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony"

V. S. Pritchett, Writer

"Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should"

Richard Dreyfuss, Actor

"I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time"

John Belushi, Comedian

"Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own"

Johann Pestalozzi, Educator

"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that"

Nick Cave, Musician

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