Happiness Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

William E. Gladstone

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Robert Baden-Powell

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

James Boswell

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

Dennis Prager

The happiness of society is the end of government.

John Adams

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo Rosten

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Tom Wilson

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Amelia Barr

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Jonathan Edwards

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Alexandre Dumas

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Arthur Helps

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Don Marquis

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Gustave Flaubert

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Andrew Vachss

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

Jamie Zawinski

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

Boutros Boutros Ghali

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Rene Descartes

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Jessamyn West

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

Charles Kuralt

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Anton Chekhov

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Chaim Potok

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Garrison Keillor

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Alan Cohen

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Frederick William Robertson

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

Nancy Reagan

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Taylor Caldwell

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson