Happiness Quotes: Inspiration for a Joyful Life (Page 6)

"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance"

Jane Austen, Writer

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

Jane Austen, Writer

"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness"

George Orwell, Author

"To be of use in the world is the only way to happiness"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all"

Horace, Poet

"Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it"

George Eliot, Author

"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe"

George Eliot, Author

"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"

Adam Smith, Economist

"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure"

William James, Philosopher

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action"

William James, Philosopher

"People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

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