Happiness Quotes - page 9

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. (Carl Sandburg)
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. View quote
Joseph Addison
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. View quote
William Saroyan
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. View quote
Carrie Underwood
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. View quote
Alice Walker
...I finally understood what true love really meant. ...that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. (Nicholas Sparks)
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. View quote
Willa Cather
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. View quote
George Washington
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world. View quote
George Washington
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. View quote
Dale Carnegie
If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving. View quote
Dale Carnegie
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. View quote
Coretta Scott King
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. View quote
George Santayana
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. View quote
George Santayana
People say money is not the key to happiness, but I've always figured if you have enough money you can get a key made. (Joan Rivers)
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. View quote
Richard Bach
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. View quote
Richard Bach
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart