Happiness Quotes

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys"

Alphonse de Lamartine, Poet

"Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect"

Adam Clarke, Theologian

"I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life"

Tobey Maguire, Actor

"But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection"

Debra Messing, Actress

"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds"

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Writer

"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning"

William Burroughs

"The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue"

David Hyde Pierce, Actor

"I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period"

Suge Knight, Producer

"From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness"

Benjamin Hoff, Author

"You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness"

Brad Garrett, Actor

"I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things"

Hugh Laurie, Comedian

"It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family"

George Porter, Scientist

"I never was someone who was at ease with happiness"

Hugh Laurie, Comedian

"For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind"

James Payn, Novelist

"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers"

George Porter, Scientist

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it"

Carrie P. Snow

"People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness"

Bernard Cornwell, Novelist

"My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites"

Diana Ross, Actress

"The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness"

Charles Van Doren, Celebrity

"To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained"

Charles Inglis, Clergyman

"Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well"

Charles Van Doren, Celebrity

"Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror"

Chris Bailey, Musician

"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness"

Arthur Hiller, Director

"Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me"

Annni-Frid Lyngstad

"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get"

Bernard Meltzer, Lawyer

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it"

Bernard Meltzer, Lawyer

"Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time"

Artie Lange, Actor

"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying"

Langston Hughes, Poet

"Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you"

Prem Rawat, Leader

"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness"

Giorgio Armani, Designer

"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted"

Deepak Chopra, Philosopher

"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife"

Daniel Boone, Explorer

"There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life"

Mary Wortley, Royalty

"A face is too slight a foundation for happiness"

Mary Wortley, Royalty

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