Famous Happiness Quotes



Love is trembling happiness.

Khalil Gibran

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

James Fenimore Cooper

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

George Eliot

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Henry David Thoreau

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

Benjamin Disraeli

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one’s sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind – intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

D. H. Lawrence

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke

The will of man is his happiness.

Friedrich Schiller

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.

Sigmund Freud

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Jane Austen

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

Having a pet means having a constant source of happiness and laughter.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

William Blake

A pet's wagging tail or purring is a language of happiness that warms the heart.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

A dog's wagging tail is a universal symbol of happiness that transcends language barriers.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Pierre Corneille

A dog's wagging tail is a universal language of happiness that brightens even the darkest days.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

As the snowflakes gently fall and the world transforms into a serene winter wonderland, Christmas arrives like a beautiful melody, reminding us to cherish the bonds that unite us. It's a time to wrap ourselves in the warmth of togetherness, reminisce about cherished memories, and revel in the joy of giving. May this festive season fill your heart with love, peace, and endless happiness.

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

Thomas Jefferson

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

As the year comes to an end, a new one begins. May it be filled with love, happiness, and positive surprises.

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