Quotes on Happiness

Happy Quotes

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.  ~Don Marquis

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.  ~Guilaume Apollinaire

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.  ~Hosea Ballou

Some pursue happiness, others create it.  ~Author Unknown

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.  ~Epictetus

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.  ~Author Unknown

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.  ~George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.  ~Phillips Brooks

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?  ~Albert Camus

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.  ~Thomas Jefferson

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.  ~Charles Kingsley

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.  ~Jean Ingelow

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.  ~Norman Bradburn

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.  ~Josh Billings

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.  ~William Feather

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.  ~Author Unknown

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.  ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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