Happiness Quotes

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden

Care, May, Thoughts

To buy happiness is to sell soul.
Douglas Horton

Soul, Sell, Buy

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr

Avoided, Composed

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Alphonse Karr

Love, Dreams, Someone

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Another, While, Secure

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Understand, Able, Possess

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing

Success, Easy, Amiable

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Leon Kass

Easy, Might, Source

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor

Happy, Wish, Longer

The right to happiness is fundamental.
Anna Pavlova

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux

Makes, Unbearable, Lacking

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Life, Men, Greatest

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Jose Marti

May, Seem, Duty

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley

Secret, Admire, Desiring

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Andrei Platonov

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington

Long, Lose, Possess

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Frank McCourt

Hard, Glow, Recall

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
William Dean Howells

Best, Greatest, Action

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Alfred de Musset

Quote

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

Love, Whatever, Lives

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Happy, Care

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Inspirational, Future, Design

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

Life, Happy, Live

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Inspirational, Life, Single

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Parenting, Peace, Family

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