Happiness Quotes and Sayings 18

HAPPINESS QUOTES AND SAYINGS (18)

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.  

~Norman Bradburn

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.  

~Proverb

With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. 

~Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.  

~Josh Billings

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.  

~William Feather

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.  

~Johnny Carson

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

~Bo Bennett 

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.

~Joyce Meyer

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

~Maxwell Maltz

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

~William Feather

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

~George Santayana

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

~George Santayana

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

~Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

~Samuel Johnson

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

~Mason Cooley

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

~Sophocles

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

~Valerie Bertinelli

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

~Stendhal

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

~Henny Youngman

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

~Tobey Maguire

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

~Anwar Sadat

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

~Bo Bennett

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

~Brene Brown

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

~Coretta Scott King

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

~John Lubbock

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

~Josh Billings

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

~John Stossel

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Happiness Quotes and Sayings 17

HAPPINESS QUOTES AND SAYINGS (17)

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

~Daisaku Ikeda

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

~Marcel Proust

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

~Thomas Huxley

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

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.  

~Robert Brault

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse.  I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.  

~J.D. Salinger

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.  

~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  

~Marcel Proust

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.  

~Author Unknown

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. 

~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

~Franz Kafka

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

~Virginia Woolf

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

~John Burroughs

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

~Louise Hart

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

~James Madison

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

~Robert Baden-Powell

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

~Aeschylus

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

~Bob Hope

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

~Miguel de Unamuno

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

~Horace

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

~Marquis de Sade

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

~Samuel Johnson

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

~John Ruskin

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

~Paramahansa Yogananda

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

~George Eliot

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

~Langston Hughes

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

~Martha Washington

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

~Bernard Meltzer

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

~Denzel Washington

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

~Michael Novak

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

~Ted Nugent

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Happiness Quotes and Sayings 16

HAPPINESS QUOTES AND SAYINGS (16)

Don't shade your eyes from the bright joy of the world. 

~Terri Guillemets

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. 

~Mildred Barthel

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. 

~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.  

~Robert Frost

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.  

~Author Unknown

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.  

~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.  

~Charles Gow

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

~Bo Bennett

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

~Jane Austen

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

~Kanye West

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

~James Allen

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

~Joan Rivers

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

~Spike Milligan

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.

~Olivia Goldsmith

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

~Phillips Brooks

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

~Bryant H. McGill

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

~Taylor Swift

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

~Bryant H. McGill

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

~Andre Maurois

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

~George Eliot

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

~Malcolm Muggeridge

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

~Quentin Crisp

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

~Suze Orman

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

~Ingrid Bergman

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

~John C. Maxwell

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

~Samuel Johnson

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

~George A. Sheehan

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

~Francis Bacon

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

~George Eliot

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.

~George Santayana

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Happiness Quotes and Sayings 15

HAPPINESS QUOTES AND SAYINGS (15)

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

~Bo Derek

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

~Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

~Zhuangzi

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

~Anthony Hopkins

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

~W. Somerset Maugham

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

~Joseph Addison

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

~Debra Messing

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

~Mary Wollstonecraft

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

~Leo Tolstoy

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

~Samuel Johnson

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

~John Stuart Mill

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

~Prem Rawat

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

~Taylor Swift

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

~J. Donald Walters

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

~Nick Cave

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

~Honore de Balzac

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

~Heraclitus

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.  

~Robert Brault

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.  

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.  

~Robert S. Lynd

I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot:  they amount to fourteen.  

~Abd-El-Raham

Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. 

~Terri Guillemets

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:  if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.  

~C.P. Snow

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

~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

~Benjamin Disraeli

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

~Lord Byron

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

~Ambrose Bierce

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Happiness Quotes and Sayings 14

HAPPINESS QUOTES AND SAYINGS (14)

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

~Guillaume Apollinaire

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

~Saint Augustine

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

~Dada Vaswani

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

~Thomas Carlyle

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

~Gustave Flaubert

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

~Sigmund Freud

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

~Immanuel Kant

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

~Blaise Pascal

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

~Carrie Underwood

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

~Robert Green Ingersoll

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

~Frederick Douglass

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

~Robert Green Ingersoll

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

~Jacques Yves Cousteau

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

~Epictetus

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

~William James

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

~Dita Von Teese

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

~William Blake

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

~Hermann Hesse

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

~Thomas Carlyle

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

~Martha Washington

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

~Chuck Palahniuk

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

~Anton Chekhov

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Incredible India Quotes and Sayings

INCREDIBLE INDIA QUOTES

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--

Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

~Rabindranath Tagore

 Gitanjali

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

~Jawaharlal Nehru

 Indian Declaration of Independence, on eve of independence, August 15 1947.

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

~Jawaharlal Nehru

 Indian Declaration of Independence, on eve of independence, August 15 1947.

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

~Jawaharlal Nehru

 Indian Declaration of Independence, on eve of independence, August 15 1947.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

~Mahatma Gandhi

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!

~Albert Einstein

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!

~Romaine Rolland, French scholar

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!

~Mark Twain

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim ... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!

~Sylvia Levi

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!

~Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

~Mark Twain

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.

~Max Mueller, German scholar

This is indeed India! The land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of traditions, whose yesterday's bear date with the modering antiquities for the rest of nations-the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for alien prince and alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the world combined.

~Mark Twain

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

~Albert Einstein

India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.

~Wheeler Wilcox, American poet

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

~Will Durant, American historian

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

~Mark Twain

There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds... I had been seeing the world in black & white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.

~Keith Bellows, VP - National Geographic Society

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

~Mark Twain

Happiness Quotes and Sayings 13

HAPPINESS QUOTES AND SAYINGS (13)

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

~Bo Derek

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

~Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

~Zhuangzi

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

~Anthony Hopkins

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

~W. Somerset Maugham

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

~Joseph Addison

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

~Debra Messing

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

~Heraclitus

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

~Benjamin Disraeli

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

~Lord Byron

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

~Ambrose Bierce

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

~Mary Wollstonecraft

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

~Leo Tolstoy

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

~Samuel Johnson

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

~John Stuart Mill

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

~Prem Rawat

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

~Taylor Swift

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

~J. Donald Walters

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

~Nick Cave

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

~Honore de Balzac

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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