Quotes About Happiness

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, not alone for its financial value, but for labour's own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind (surprises) if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life -- that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living. I pity the man, black or white, who has never experienced the joy and satisfaction that come to one by reason of an effort to assist in making someone else more useful and more happy.

I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. This

think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. This lesson I have tried to carry with me ever since.

This institution does not exist for your education alone; it does not exist for your comfort and happiness altogether, although those things are important, and we keep them in mind; it exists that we may give you intelligence, skill of hand, and strength of mind and heart; and we help you in these ways that you, in turn, may help others.

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

Ce qui m'interesse, ce n'est pas le bonheur de tous les hommes, c'est celui de chacun.

I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.

I'm full of despair and yet, at the same time, I'm horribly happy. It's a nice kind of feeling to want something as badly as that.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

In every moment of conscious happiness there mingles an undertone of sadness. However full of enjoyment the present, the future is always uncertain, and it is the feeling of this--the feeling that we are of the class of ephemera--perpetually recurring in the rarest and sweetest moments of existence, that constitutes, more than any other, the "one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin."

The poor man finds happiness in economy; the rich man, misery.

Our happiness depends chiefly upon the estimate we form of life, and the efforts we make to bring ourselves into harmony with its laws.

Only the optimist looks wisely on life. Though the actual world is not to his liking, it is the happiness of the optimist to carry a nobler in his thought.

Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Humor is healing.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.