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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