Quotes For Happiness

• He who avoids complaint invites happiness. Abu Bakr

• Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille

• My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. Diana Ross

• The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Benjamin Disraeli

• Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

• A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. Bette Davis

• Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. Plato

• A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. Elsa Schiaparelli

• Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Dale Carnegie

• Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. Greg Anderson

• If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. Maurice Chevalier

• The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer

• The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. Joseph Butler

• Happiness? No, it's not there for me. Robert Mapplethorpe

• Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce

• I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness. Brittany Murphy

• 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. Theodore Isaac Rubin

• Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower. John Harrigan

• People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. Joan Rivers

• One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. William Feather

• Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Leo Rosten

• The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. Arthur Schopenhauer

• The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg

• I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness. Giorgio Armani

• But happiness is no respecter of persons. Stephen Fry

• Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace. Beth Ditto

• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. Nassau William Senior

• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. Pablo Picasso

• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus

• What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. Andre Gide

• I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage. Jared Harris

• Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. Arthur Helps

• Success can create more madness than happiness. Billy Ocean

• Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway