Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
- Author Unknown
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
- Author Unknown
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
- Author Unknown
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
- Author Unknown
Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.
- Author Unknown
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
- Author Unknown
Showing posts with label happiness quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness quotes. Show all posts
Quotes on Happiness - Can't Live Without Them!
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
- Sydney J. Harris
You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.
- Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
- William Hazlitt
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert Anson Heinlein
Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he stops.
- Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
- Napolian Hill
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; all may live above the troubles of life; worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.
- Newell Dwight Hillis
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
- Eric Hoffer
He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.
- Horace
If you're trying to remember a happy memory, don't think back to a time when you were ALSO thinking of a happy memory, because man, how long does this go on?!
- Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
- Sydney J. Harris
You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.
- Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
- William Hazlitt
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert Anson Heinlein
Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he stops.
- Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
- Napolian Hill
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; all may live above the troubles of life; worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.
- Newell Dwight Hillis
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
- Eric Hoffer
He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.
- Horace
If you're trying to remember a happy memory, don't think back to a time when you were ALSO thinking of a happy memory, because man, how long does this go on?!
- Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)
Quotes on Happiness
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
- Confucius
Be virtuous and you'll be happy? Nonsense! Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
- James Gould Cozzens
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.
- Thomas Davidson
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment; And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.
- Tibetan Doctrine
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
- Albert Einstein
To fill the hour-that is happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
- Confucius
Be virtuous and you'll be happy? Nonsense! Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
- James Gould Cozzens
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.
- Thomas Davidson
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment; And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.
- Tibetan Doctrine
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
- Albert Einstein
To fill the hour-that is happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
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