Quotes by Subject: Happiness
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. | |||
Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all. | |||
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? | |||
You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier. | |||
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. | |||
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got. | |||
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. | |||
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. | |||
There is no man so low that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself. | |||
The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. | |||
Optimism is an intellectual choice. | |||
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap. | |||
Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else. | * | ||
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. | |||
It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are. | |||
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. | * | ||
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. | |||
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. | |||
He who would travel happily must travel light. | |||
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. | |||
A lifetime of happiness! No man could bear it; it would be hell on earth. | |||
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, and a good woman - or bad woman. It depends on how much happiness you can handle. | |||
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. | * | ||
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. | |||
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. | |||
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. | |||
Nothing very good or very bad last very long. | |||
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. | |||
Happiness in not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. | |||
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. | |||
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another | |||
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. | |||
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. | |||
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. | |||
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. | |||
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. | |||
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 paradise in a few years. | |||
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. | |||
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. | |||
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. | |||
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. | |||
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. | |||
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. | |||
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. | |||
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. | |||
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. | |||
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. | |||
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. | * | ||
*indicates a past Quote of The Week
