Happiness Quotes

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides

God, Stay, Sails

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

Find, Easy, Possible

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
David Brainerd

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles

Wisdom, Depends

To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Stendhal

Describe, Diminish

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
Lucinda Williams

Become, Between, Personal

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown

Bad, Memory, Keys

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Sarah McLachlan

Long, Enough, Cloud

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Julian Casablancas

Desire, Individual, Common

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith

Finger, Pulse, Lays

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis

Between, Interval, Periods

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill

Done, Possible, Mankind

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet

Great, Ruined, Repetition

Happiness seems made to be shared.
Pierre Corneille

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock

Makes, Fulfilled, Mostly

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Austin O'Malley

Quiet, Eye, Harvest

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Sam Levenson

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling

Life, Greatest, Curiosity

Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck

Growth, Germ, Contains

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

Life, Love, Common

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