HAPPINESS QUOTES (12)
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
~Victor Hugo
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~Immanuel Kant
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
~Red Skelton
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
~Victor Hugo
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
~Aeschylus
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.
~Bertrand Russell
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
~Joel Osteen
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
~Dionne Warwick
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
~Thomas Paine
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
~Richard Bach
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
~Aldous Huxley
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
~Maria Montessori
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
~William S. Burroughs
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
~Edmund Burke
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
~Brad Garrett
Where fear is, happiness is not.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
~Maria Mitchell
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
~Bertrand Russell
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
~Bertrand Russell
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
~Thornton Wilder
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
~Colette
Whatever you set aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.
~Robert Brault
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 greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
~William Saroyan
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
~Anton Chekhov
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
~Suze Orman
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
~Thomas Carlyle
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
~Saint Augustine
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
~Guillaume Apollinaire