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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