Quotations About Happiness
Related: Emotions
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism, 1863
Utilitarianism, 1863
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
Frederich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark
The Journey's Echo
The Journey's Echo
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
The Fall, 1956
The Fall, 1956
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
The Conquest of Happiness
The Conquest of Happiness
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The College Blue Book
The College Blue Book
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz
Social Studies
Social Studies
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Afterthoughts, 1931
Afterthoughts, 1931
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bride, n. A Woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
E.L. Konigsburg
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
I love my father as the stars — he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.
Terri Guillemets
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
Unknown
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Unknown
One joy shatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese proverb
Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.
Proverbs 14:13
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Jacques Prévert
Happiness is a form of courage.
Holbrook Jackson
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Unknown
A gain is no joy, nor a loss any grief.
Chinese Proverb
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean de La Bruyere
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Lydia Maria Francis Child
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Paul Sweeney
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Palmer Sondreal
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
C.S. Lewis
America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness.
Aurora Raigne