Happiness
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
- Akhenaton
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness indifferent ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Aristotle
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise.
- Blake, William
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
- Camus, Albert
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Chambers, Allan K.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
- Chinese Proverb
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
- Cicero
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
- Colton, Charles C.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Davies, Robertson
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
- de Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier
To fill the hour - that is happiness.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
- Euripides
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
- Euripides
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- France, Anatole
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
- Freud, Sigmund
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Frost, Robert
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
- Fuller, Thomas
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Hills, Burton
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; perty and wealth have both failed.
- Hubbard, Kin
I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
- Huxley, Aldous
Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
- Ingersoll, Robert G.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Jefferson, Thomas
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
- Johnson, Samuel
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Keller, Helen
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Keller, Helen
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
- Levent, Oscar
It is better to be happy for a momen tand be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
- Marquis, Don
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
- Mill, John Stuart
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- Oppenheim, James
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
- Prévert, Jacques
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Proust, Marcel
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Russell, Bertrand
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
- Russell, Bertrand
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
- Russell, Bertrand
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
- Santayana, George
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
- Scottish Proverb
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
- Shakespeare, William
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- St. Augustine
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
- Syrus, Publilius
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- Twain, Mark
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
- White, E.B.
