Happiness Quotes
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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
Aristotle
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I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.
Heather Graham
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare
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I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent. The chaos and the stress of life won't last forever. Eventually, it will go away and I will once again be left with nothing but happiness.
Haley Pullos
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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
Audrey Niffenegger
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Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
Eric Weiner
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I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.
Abbi Glines
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Nothing prevents happiness as much as the desire for more.
Arturo Graf
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer
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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!
William Hazlitt
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There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
Elsa Triolet
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In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.
Benjamin Rush
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I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.
Muhammad Ali
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
Albert Camus
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Choose your words wisely, because they will influence your happiness, your relationships, and your personal wealth.
Andrew B. Newberg
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There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
Wallace Stegner
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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
Alice Hegan Rice
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I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.
Wesley Willis
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
Alexandre Dumas
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Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps
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Russia's 62% of women and only 38% men, many of whom are heavy drinkers, so the battle for the female happiness is a rude one, only the slimmest, the leggiest, the blondest and the sexiest are the winners.
Alexander Vassiliev
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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James
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You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.
Elsie de Wolfe
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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
Honore de Balzac