happiness quotes

"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."
Coretta King

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."
Barbara De Angelis

"To fill the hour -- that is happiness."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
C.S. Lewis

"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree."
English Proverb

"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."
William Phelps

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D Roosevelt

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."
Ben Jonson

"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
Scottish Proverb

"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."
Charles Montesquieu

"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity."
Thomas Jefferson

"Where one is wise two are happy."
Proverb Proverbs

"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."
Oscar Wilde

"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 Proverbs

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
Chuang Tzu

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln

"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast."
Norman Peale

"If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?"

"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians -"
Bible

Bottom of Form

"I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."
Henry Longfellow

"And a new day will come, and a new evening and man’s Sacred Self will understand that replacing the churches of the Evil and also of the sublime in him, of that unwritten Good that could not be stolen along with the Sacred Self, will require to put something else in return, that without praying an hope, without dream and poetry, without curse and pain, without happiness and fulfilment all of this would not even be a vanity of the vanities. It would not even be an Illusion of the illusions, but a waste of time, just like many ages were wasted under this cold and torrid sun, calm or not interested by what he sees with his angelic or demonic rays, depending on the dream this undecided, dreaming and meaningless man was dreaming! 

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Sorin Cerin

"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."
Julian Barnes

"The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."
William Shakespeare

"So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life."
William Shakespeare

"My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily."
D.H. Lawrence

"He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love."
Theodor Reik

"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead."
Charles Schwab

"Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child."
DAVID GRAYSON

Bottom of Form

"Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition."
David Hume

"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."
Malcolm Muggeridge

"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!"
Maharishi Yogi

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
Og Mandino

"We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light."
David Henry Thoreau

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
George Bernard Shaw

"True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days."
Max Planck