Happiness Quotes

"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character"

"Love is trembling happiness"

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever"

John Ruskin, Writer

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right"

Helen Keller, Author

"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it"

Helen Keller, Author

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

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