Happiness

42 quotes.

• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Attributed to the Dalai Lama

• The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

  Martha Washington

• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

  Marcus Aurelius

• Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

• Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

  William James

• Blessed are the Happiness Makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

  Amanda Bradley

• Enjoy life ... This is not a rehearsal.

  Anonymous

• Happiness is a habit - cultivate it.

  Elbert Hubbard

• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing.

  George Sheehan

• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

• Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.

  Anonymous

• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

  Margaret Lee Runbeck

• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  Chuang-tzu

• Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy.

  Anonymous

• 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 Caleb Colton

• Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

  Anonymous

• He laughs best who laughs last.

  English Proverb

• He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  H.H. Munro

• It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

  Anonymous

• 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

• Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

  Victor Borge

• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  Victor Hugo

• Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

  Norman Lear

• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Anonymous

• Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

  Anonymous

• Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

  Johann von Goethe

• Remember that happiness is a way of travel -- not a destination.

  Anonymous

• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Mark Twain

• The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

  Chamfort

• The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

• The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

  Dr. Smiley Blanton

• To love is find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved.

  Anonymous

• To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

  Gottfried von Leibnitz

• To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love.

  Woody Allen

• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

  Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)

• True happiness ... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from friendship and conversation of a few selection companions.

  Joseph Addison

• Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

  Sanskrit proverb

• It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

  Jane Fonda

• My creed is that; Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

• Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

  Sophocles

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