Happiness Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Leonard Boswell

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Dag Hammarskjold

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Ogden Nash

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Joseph Wood Krutch

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Chuck Jones

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Doug Larson

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

Geraldine Ferraro

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

William Morris

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Leo Buscaglia

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Andre Maurois

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Henri Bergson

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

William Weld

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

H. P. Lovecraft

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Milan Kundera

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Desiderius Erasmus

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Swami Sivananda

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

W. Somerset Maugham

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Chuck Palahniuk

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Victoria Woodhull

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

John Buchan

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

W. Somerset Maugham

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Andre Gide

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Honore de Balzac

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

J. B. Priestley