1,043 Quotes Regarding Happiness


You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chambers

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

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero

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 C. Colton

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson Davies

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

To fill the hour - that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
Euripides

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides

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

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Thomas Fuller

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness indifferent ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Von Goethe

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; perty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley