Happiness Quotes - page 4

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
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. View quote
Helen Keller
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. View quote
Sydney Smith
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. (Pierre Corneille)
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. View quote
Oscar Levant
Righteousness is the root of happiness. View quote
Chanakya
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. View quote
John Barrymore
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. View quote
Plutarch
They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom. View quote
Confucius
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. View quote
Dalai Lama
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. (Thomas Jefferson)
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. View quote
John Lennon
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! View quote
William Hazlitt
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. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. View quote
George Eliot
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