Happiness Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Publilius Syrus

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Leon Kass

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Walter Benjamin

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

Matthew Simpson

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Jean de la Bruyere

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Pierre Corneille

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Pierre Corneille

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Immanuel Kant

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Laurence Sterne

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

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.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Baltasar Gracian

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

William Butler Yeats

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

Clarence Darrow

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Douglas Horton

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Vladimir Nabokov

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

William Butler Yeats

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

William Wordsworth