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

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

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness"

Richard Bach, Novelist

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

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

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

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

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

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness"

Harry F. Banks, Producer

"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 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

"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy"

Philip Sidney, Soldier

"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 direction, not a place"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"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 hard master, particularly other people's happiness"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"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

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

Confucius, Philosopher

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

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"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

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

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance"

George Orwell, Author

"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected"

George Washington, President

"Beauty is the promise of happiness"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse"

Adam Smith, Economist

"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 a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"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

"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

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

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness"

Don Marquis, Journalist

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