For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
– Athenus
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?
– Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
– James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
– Joseph Addison
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
– Eustace Budgell
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
– Lord Essex
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
– Elbert Hubbard
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
– Dr. Dale E. Turner
Great master Lao Tzu says that ‘The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.’ Giving is indeed a very good source of happiness! One of the best treasures a man can give to someone is a good and sound idea; because birds can ascend into the sky only with wings, and men, only with good and sound ideas!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
– Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
– Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
– George Washington
Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday.
– Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
– Denis Waitley
Happiness comes in small peaces. Stop looking for it, before you’ll get lost. Don’t expect too much, or you’ll make room for disappointment. Take life as it is and you’ll enjoy it!
– Cristian Andrei Nica
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
– Storm Jameson
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
– John Mason Good
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 grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
– Douglas Jerrold
Happiness hates the timid So does science
– Eugene O'Neill
Happiness in nature is a double happiness; sorrow in nature is a half sorrow!
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
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
