Happiness Quotes
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The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
Nicholas Sparks -
Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.
Ben Chestnut
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We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.
Walther Rathenau -
Perfect understanding between beings is no guarantor of happiness. To perfectly understand another's madness, for instance, is to be mad oneself. The veil that separates earthly beings is, at times, a tragic barrier, but it is also, at times, a great kindness.
Andre Alexis -
You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
Benedict Freedman -
Since there is no place large enough to contain so much happiness, you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you into everything you touch. You are not responsible. You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it, and in that way, be known.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
William James -
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother's an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt -
Happiness need not be analyzed.
Barbara Ann Kipfer -
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
Claudius Claudianus -
Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse.
George Vaillant -
Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
George Bernard Shaw
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The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
Simone de Beauvoir -
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
Seneca the Younger -
When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.
Arthur Dobrin -
I've realized that being happy is a choice.
Angelina Jolie -
What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.
Sigmund Freud
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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather -
To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.
Chica Umino -
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
William James -
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?
Hermann Hesse