Happiness Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Ashley Montagu

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

Mary MacLane

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

Bill Forsyth

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

Marcel Carne

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Langston Hughes

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

Brooks Atkinson

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Joseph Butler

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Princess Diana

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

James Allen

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

Kate Chopin

I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

Carl Karcher

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Tryon Edwards

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

Neil Simon

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Henry Ellis

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

Tracy Kidder

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

James Broughton

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Thomas Traherne

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

Mary Wollstonecraft

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

Jilly Cooper

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Ann Beattie

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Alexander Solzehnitsyn

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

William Cobbett

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

Andrew Wyeth

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

Rex Stout

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Thomas Hood

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Maria Mitchell

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Georges Bataille

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Benjamin Franklin

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Gustave Flaubert

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Malcolm Forbes

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

John Mason Brown