Happiness Quotes: Inspiration for a Joyful Life (Page 8)

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get"

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude"

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping "

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it"

Holbrook Jackson, Writer

"Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants"

Jimmy Carter, President

"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness"

Stendhal, Writer

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"To describe happiness is to diminish it"

Stendhal, Writer

"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness"

Stendhal, Writer

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness, and the right to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience"

Dwight Morrow, Businessman

"The person who was holding me back from my happiness was me"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number"

William Dean Howells, Author

"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine"

Donatella Versace, Designer

"And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind"

Marcel Proust, Author

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