Quote: happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it Author: Aristotle
Quote: To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance Author: Buddha
Quote: The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for Author: Allan K. Chalmers
Quote: Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Quote: The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself Author: Benjamin Franklin
Quote: He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home Author: Johann von Goethe
Quote: Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life Author: Burton Hills
Quote: I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive Author: Henry Miller
Quote: Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy Author: Cynthia Nelms
Quote: Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go Author: Oscar Wilde
Quote: You can't have everything, where would you put it? Author: Steven Wright
Quote: Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be Author: Abraham Lincoln
Quote: The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved Author: Victor Hugo
Quote: Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Quote: There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Author: Carl Jung
Quote: A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness Author: Bernard de Fontanelle
Quote: The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances Author: Martha Washington
Quote: When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has been opened to us. Author: Helen Keller
Quote: There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Author: Logan Persall Smith
Quote: It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which give happiness Author: Thomas Jefferson
Quote: Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Quote: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Quote: Joy is not in things; it is in us Author: John Wagner
Quote: Man must search for what is right, And let happiness come on its own Author: Johann Pestalozzi
Quote: The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. Author: Erasmus
Quote: There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people Author: Anwar El-Sadat
Quote: The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good. Author: Bertrand Russell
Quote: 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Quote: If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else. Chinese Proverb Author: Chinese Proverb
Quote: If we only stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time Author: Edit Wharton
Quote: People can rain on your parade only if you let them Author: Anonymous
Quote: The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you Author: Bette Midler
Quote: Happiness is a direction, not a place. Author: Sydney J. Harris
Quote: Age may wrinkle the face, But lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul Author: Anonymous
Quote: It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere Author: Agnes Repplier
Quote: Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions Author: Arthur Rubinstein
Quote: The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions. The little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, countless infinitesimal of pleasure and genial feelings Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quote: If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion Author: Dalai Lama
Quote: Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life and be needed. Author: Storm Jamison
Quote: Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Author: Carl Jung
Quote: All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. Author: Dennis Prager
Quote: Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty. Author: Aristotle
Quote: The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. Author: Woody Allen
Quote: See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you Author: James Freeman Clarke
Quote: Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them Author: Count Leo Tolstoy
Quote: Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. Author: Arnold Bennett