Happiness Quotes - page 3

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. (W. Somerset Maugham)
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. View quote
Jacques Prévert
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. View quote
George Santayana
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. (Ernie Banks)
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room. View quote
Jules Renard
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. View quote
Jane Austen
Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. View quote
Helen Keller
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. (Gustave Flaubert)
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. View quote
Sydney Smith
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne