Happiness Quotes - Page 3

Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?

William Lyon Phelps

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

We are all happy if we only knew it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much much better.

Laurie Anderson

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Margaret Atwood

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.

Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Christian Bovee

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it except for a brief period the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.

John Lancaster Spalding

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

Anonymous

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

John Stuart Mill

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

William Saroyan

My life has no purpose no direction no aim no meaning and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Charles M. Schulz

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal

People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end. ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

Ken Keyes

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Anonymous

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first some unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Tom Walsh

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?

Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.

Anonymous

No pleasure without pain.

Anonymous

But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.

Anonymous

The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Carl Jung

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.

Charles L. Morgan

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Everyone only goes around the track once in life and if you don't enjoy that trip it's pretty pathetic.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Anonymous

Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late.

Robert R. Updegraff

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it you're still going to be taken along.

Bernadette Roberts

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Channing Pollock

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

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Thornton Wilder

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

Arthur Rubinstein

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

Best to live lightly unthinkingly.

Sophocles

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.

Anonymous

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Let him that would be happy for a day go to the barber for a week marry a wife for a month buy him a new horse for a year build him a new house for all his lifetime be an honest man.

Anonymous

Who will present pleasure refrain shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Anonymous

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

Bertrand Russell

It is in virtue that happiness consists for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

Zeno

To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Happiness has many roots but none more important than security.

E. R. Stettinius

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