Happiness Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

William Butler Yeats

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

Jules Renard

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Tracy Kidder

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

William Ralph Inge

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Nikolai Gogol

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Walter Savage Landor

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

David Antin

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Walter Savage Landor

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Graham Greene

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Ogden Nash

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Billy Graham

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Cyril Connolly

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

John Burroughs

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Ann Landers

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

Doug Larson

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Friedrich Schiller

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feather

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

John Stuart Mill