Happiness Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Thor Heyerdahl

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

James Joyce

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

Mortimer Adler

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Henry Fielding

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

William Feather

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Andre Maurois

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Anne Frank

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Thomas Merton

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Logan P. Smith

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

Evita Peron

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Franz Schubert

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

Linus Torvalds

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

James Broughton

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

William J. H. Boetcker

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara de Angelis

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Logan P. Smith

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

Quentin Crisp

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Franz Schubert

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

William Dean Howells

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Andre Maurois

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Jilly Cooper

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Daniel Keys Moran