Happiness Quotes
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It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
W. H. Auden -
Happiness is a choice—a choice to be joyful, no matter what the circumstance.
Sadie Robertson
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Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.
Stevie Wonder -
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino -
The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan -
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.
Victor Hugo -
I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
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O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
Pablo Neruda -
The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
Saint Augustine -
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac -
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
M. F. K. Fisher -
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
Earl Mac Rauch -
The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
Dalai Lama -
You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.
Esther Hicks -
There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
Napoleon Hill -
The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps -
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
Norman Vincent Peale
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It's such a happiness when good people get together.
Jane Austen -
The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.
Enrique Penalosa -
Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?
Julia Roberts -
Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.
Marion Milner