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Quotes About Happiness

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
~ Blaise Pascal
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.
~ Frederick Lenz
May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
~ Laurence J. Peter
My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
~ Douglas Adams
Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.
~ Lloyd D. Newell
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
~ Henri Rousseau
If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
~ Toni Morrison
Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less
~ Jodi Picoult
Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
~ George Burns
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.
~ Francisco Costa
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.
~ Washington Irving
Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
~ J. D. Salinger
Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
~ Confucius
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
~ Elie Wiesel
Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.
~ Sarah Silverman
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
~ John Dryden
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.
~ Robert Holden
Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.
~ Nhat Hanh
It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.
~ Theodore Dreiser