Happiness Quotes - page 12

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. (Herman Melville)
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. View quote
Henri Matisse
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. View quote
Lord Byron
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. View quote
Sydney Smith
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. View quote
Bette Davis
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. View quote
Ogden Nash
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. View quote
Ogden Nash
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. (Leo Tolstoy)
Knowledge comes only to those who despise happiness. View quote
Georg Trakl
Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us. View quote
Franz Werfel
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. View quote
Galen
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. View quote
Max Planck
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. View quote
Chanakya
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. View quote
Quentin Crisp
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness. (Milan Kundera)
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the rootof all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I don't care about truth. I want some happiness. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales