Happiness Quotes - page 2

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. View quote
George Burns
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness. View quote
Stendhal
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another. View quote
Gottfried Leibniz
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. View quote
Robert Frost
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. View quote
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. View quote
George Orwell
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. View quote
John Stuart Mill
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)
Happiness depends upon ourselves. View quote
Aristotle
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. View quote
Thomas Paine
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. View quote
Maxim Gorky