1,043 Quotes Regarding Happiness

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

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

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu

To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Stendhal

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
David Brainerd

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Julian Casablancas

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Sarah McLachlan

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
Lucinda Williams

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock

Happiness seems made to be shared.
Pierre Corneille

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot

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

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Sam Levenson