Happiness Quotes - page 11

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The true love is a state of half-madness, of some kind of soft obsession, ruling a so delicate kind of feeling that can lead a person from the greatest happiness to the most dreadful pain.

Lima Barreto

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bertolt Brecht

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

William Blake

Said Scopas of Thessaly, 'We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.'

Plutarch

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.

Rosa Parks

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable. (Anatole France)

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Brandon Boyd

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

William Wordsworth

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

Erma Bombeck

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

Arthur C. Clarke

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

Swami Vivekananda

Families, I hate you Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness.

André Gide

I don't think much about happiness. But I know that playing music makes me feel good. (Jared Leto)

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara De Angelis

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Linus Pauling

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

Hugh Laurie

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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