Life & Living: Happiness Quotes

"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed"

James Buchanan, President

"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"No one's really happy anyway, it's not human"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too"

Anne Frank, Writer

"Think of all the beauty still left around you, and be happy"

Anne Frank, Writer

"Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

"All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in "

David Niven, Actor

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

Holbrook Jackson, Writer

"No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days"

Max Planck, Scientist

"Only a fool expects to be happy all the time"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life"

Linus Pauling, Scientist

"A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self"

Hugo Black, Judge

"One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"I think I am basically a happy person"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"The long days are no happier than the short ones"

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Happiness is not a destination, it's a practice"

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"Happiness is always a coincidence"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed"

Joan Collins, Actress

"The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony"

James Allen, Author

"A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings"

James Allen, Author

"I'm happy when I'm doing what I do best"

Lita Ford, Musician

"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"No man is a failure who is enjoying life"

William Feather, Author

"When trust improves, the mood improves"

Fernando Flores, Politician

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