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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


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


The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
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


To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
The Fall, 1956


Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
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


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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


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


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