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Quotes About Happiness

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
~ Derek Bok
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
~ C. S. Lewis
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.
~ Lydia Sigourney
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.
~ Norman Douglas
I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.
~ Greg Jackson
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
~ Sara Teasdale
My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
So this is happiness, that journeyman.
~ Arthur Lynch
The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.
~ Marianne Williamson
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
~ Susan Cain
The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.
~ Sheila Kaye-Smith
The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
~ Susan Cain
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
~ Confucius
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
~ David Hume
Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.
~ Mark Schwahn
I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.
~ Victoria Woodhull
He who is good is happy.
~ William Habington
Tremendous happiness and peace of mind are the results of loving service to others. Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
~ Charles Edward Montague
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
~ Jane Austen
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
~ John James Ingalls