Happiness Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Gerald Jampolsky

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Madame de Stael

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Doug Larson

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

Adelbert von Chamisso

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

John W. Gardner

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Bryant H. McGill

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

James Monroe

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw Lec

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Ludwig van Beethoven

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Richard M. Nixon

Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!

Isabel Yosito

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

A. E. Housman

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campbell

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

John Updike

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Hannah Arendt

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Willa Cather

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

John Lasseter

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

George Grosz

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Joseph Roux

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Alexander Smith

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Herbert Spencer

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

Anna Quindlen

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

O. Henry

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

Gilbert Parker

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

William Dean Howells

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Pope Paul VI

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Franz Schubert

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

F. H. Bradley

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

John Webster

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

Carter Burwell

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Hosea Ballou