Quotes about happiness




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"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."

Saroyan, William on happiness    Share


"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."

Schachtel, Rabbi H. on happiness    Share

"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on happiness    Share

"Joy comes from using your potential."

Schultz, Will on happiness    Share

"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead."

Schwab, Charles M. on happiness    Share

"The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."

Schweitzer, Albert on happiness    Share

"I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad."

Shakespeare, William on happiness
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"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

Shakespeare, William on happiness    Share

"Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life."

Shaw, George Bernard on happiness    Share

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

Shaw, George Bernard on happiness    Share

"A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."

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"Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

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"The soul's joy lies in doing."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on happiness    Share

"There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on happiness
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"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"

Smith, Adam on happiness    Share

"We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once."

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall on happiness    Share

"If you pursue happiness you never find it."

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy) on happiness    Share

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy) on happiness    Share

"Happiness is unrepentant pleasure."

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"Call no man unhappy until he is married."

Socrates on happiness
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"Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned."

Sokoloff, Boris on happiness
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"Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky."

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"No man is happy; he is at best fortunate."

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"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on happiness    Share

"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are."

Sondreal, Palmer on happiness    Share

"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."

Spencer, Herbert on happiness    Share

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on happiness    Share

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

Stark, Freya on happiness
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"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."

Stein, Ben on happiness
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"To describe happiness is to diminish it."

Stendhal, Henri B. on happiness    Share

"Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose."

Stossel, John on happiness    Share

"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."

Strindberg, J. August on happiness    Share

"Happiness is a journey not a destination."

Sweetland, Ben on happiness
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"The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on happiness    Share

"Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived."

Swift, Jonathan on happiness    Share

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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."

Szasz, Thomas on happiness
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"Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise."

Thomas, John M. on happiness
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"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."

Thoreau, Henry David on happiness
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