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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