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Short Happiness Quotes

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Happiness Quotes About Life

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Henry David Thoreau

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Bertrand Russell

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Positive Happiness Quotes

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Benjamin Franklin

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

More Happiness Quotes

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Benjamin Disraeli

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore de Balzac

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

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