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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