Happiness Quotes

• Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

  

  Epictetus
  • Happiness
  • Reward
  • Good Life

• Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Value
  • Happiness
  • Satisfaction

• We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Death
  • Desire

• Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Happiness
  • Unshared
  • Scarcely

• Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Loves

• Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Men
  • Troubles
  • Calculate

• I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Smart

• I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.

  

  Juan Pablo Di Pace
  • Jesus
  • Happiness
  • Risen

• Love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.

  

  Emilie du Chatelet
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Passion

• What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Successful

• May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Blessed
  • Sufficient

• Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Intelligence

• If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Because I am married to a surgeon, I do Botox and I do some fillers. But I truly believe that the best beauty secret is happiness. I know that sounds sappy, but I'm just telling you it comes from the inside and spreads out. The happier and more satisfied you are living your life, the better you will look.

  

  Heather Dubrow
  • Surgeon
  • Botox
  • Beauty secret

• What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Joy

• Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Humans

• The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Share
  • Avenge

• Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

  

  Rene Char
  • Trust
  • Risks
  • Cling

• Happiness is a house without a telephone.

  

  Gay Byrne
  • Happiness
  • Without
  • Telephone

• Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

  

  Barbara Hutton
  • Money
  • Fascination
  • Husbands

• Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Great
  • Chance
  • Loss

• You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Happiness
  • Yourself
  • Emotions

• Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

  

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
  • Want
  • Happiness
  • Grief

• The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Way
  • Happiness
  • Ideals

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