Happiness Quotes: Inspiration for a Joyful Life (Page 3)

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

"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

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

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open"

John Barrymore, Actor

"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

"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

"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

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

Marcel Proust, Author

"God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"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

"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved"

George Sand, Novelist

"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

"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race"

David Wilmot, Activist

"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch"

Ogden Nash, Poet

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness"

William Weld, Politician

"Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification"

Herman Hesse, Author

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence"

Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist

"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life"

Lucan, Poet

"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose"

William Cowper, Poet

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another"

Eustace Budgell, Writer

"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves"

Ethel Percy Andrus, Activist

"Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake"

J. Donald Walters, Author

"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle"

George Burns, Comedian

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it"

Mary Baker Eddy, Theologian

"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse"

Sophocles, Author

"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way"

Sophocles, Author

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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