Quotes about happiness

"Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire."

Prazlin, Duchess on happiness   

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."

Prevert, Jacques on happiness   

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Proust, Marcel on happiness
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"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."

Proust, Marcel on happiness   

"Where one is wise two are happy."

Proverb on happiness   

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on happiness
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"Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring."

Proverb, Chinese on happiness   

"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree."

Proverb, English on happiness
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"While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment."

Proverb, Hasidic on happiness   

"He is rich who owes nothing."

Proverb, Hungarian on happiness   

"Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it."

Proverb, Russian on happiness
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"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."

Proverb, Scottish on happiness
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"There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness."

Proverb, Spanish on happiness   

"If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you."

Prutz on happiness   

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

Repplier, Agnes on happiness
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"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."

Richter, Jean Paul on happiness
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"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."

Rockefeller, John D. on happiness   

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

Rohn, Jim on happiness
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"The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it."

Rohr, Richard on happiness
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"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."

Rooney, Andy on happiness
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"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on happiness
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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on happiness
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"The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on happiness   

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."

Rubin, Theodore I. on happiness   

"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."

Rubinstein, Arthur on happiness   

"To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness   

"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness   

"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness   

"Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."

Sade, Marquis De on happiness   

"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on happiness   

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on happiness   

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."

Santayana, George on happiness
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience."

Santayana, George on happiness   

"Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness."

Sarnoff, David on happiness