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

"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery"

"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

"The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression"

Gary Larson, Cartoonist

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"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 hard master, particularly other people's happiness"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"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

"Happiness is a direction, not a place"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"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

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

Confucius, Philosopher

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

Karl Marx, 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 interval between periods of unhappiness"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"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

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

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

Richard Bach, Novelist

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

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"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

"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"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

"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

"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

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

Ben Jonson, Poet

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

Marcel Proust, Author

"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

"Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in"

Julie Christie, Actress

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