Happiness Quotes - page 3

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)
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. View quote
John Stuart Mill
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. View quote
Franz Kafka
Happiness depends upon ourselves. View quote
Aristotle
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
But 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. View quote
Thomas Paine
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. View quote
Maxim Gorky
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. View quote
Jack Kerouac
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. (Ambrose Bierce)
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. View quote
George Santayana
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. View quote
Ernie Banks
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room. View quote
Jules Renard
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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)
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. View quote
Jane Austen
Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. View quote
Samuel Beckett
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. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
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