Quotes about happiness

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

Dimnet, Ernest on happiness   

"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on happiness
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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on happiness
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"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

Douglas, Norman on happiness   

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

Dumas, Alexandre on happiness
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"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

Dyer, Wayne on happiness
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"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."

Dyer, Wayne on happiness
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"Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door"

Edwards, Tryon on happiness   

"To fill the hour -- that is happiness."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on happiness
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"I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on happiness   

"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on happiness
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

Epictetus on happiness
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"Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world."

Epictetus on happiness   

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

Epicurus on happiness
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"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."

Epicurus on happiness   

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

Erasmus, Desiderius on happiness   

"Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness."

Erikson, Erik H. on happiness   

"Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation."

Farrall, Joseph on happiness
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"Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it."

Feather, William on happiness
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"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."

Feather, William on happiness
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"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness."

Fichte, Johann G. on happiness
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"To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness."

Fichte, Johann G. on happiness   

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

Fielding, Henry on happiness   

"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on happiness
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"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on happiness
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"Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good"

Fountain., John on happiness   

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

Frank, Anne on happiness
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"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."

Franklin, Benjamin on happiness
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."

Franklin, Benjamin on happiness
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"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation."

Freud, Sigmund on happiness
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

Frost, Robert on happiness
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."

Gardner, John W. on happiness   

"The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness."

Garrison, Theodosia on happiness   

"Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it."

Geneen, Harold S. on happiness   

"There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!"

Gilfillan, Robert on happiness   

"Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living."

Ginott, Haim on happiness
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"The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness   

"The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness