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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. --Charles H. Spurgeon (in Happiness Wards Off Heart Disease)
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Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. --Carl Jung (in Art from Ashes)
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Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine. --Walter Russell (in The World's Happiest People)
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. --George Santayana (in 9 Ways to be Happy in the Next 30 Minutes)
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The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside. --Tenzin Palmo (in Tenzin Palmo: Cave in the Snow)
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. --Buddha (in A Law for Cooperation)
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Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. --Frank Pittman III (in Beyond the Paycheck)
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Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them. --Jack Brown (in 4 Ways to a Happier Workday)
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. --Helen Keller (in Engineering Solutions for Africa's Rural Poor)
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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. --Mark Twain (in The 3 A's of Awesome)
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. --Ayn Rand (in Like Water From a Hummingbird)
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. --Margaret Lee Runbeck (in 10 Keys to Happier Living)
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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. --Robert Green Ingersoll (in 5 Ways of Spending Time -- toward Happiness)
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When I am happy, I see the happiness in others. When I am depressed, I notice that people's eyes look sad. When I am weary, I see the world as boring and unattractive. --Steve Chandler (in Learning Tranquility at Stanford)
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. --Margaret Lee Runbeck (in Happiness: Getting Our Priorities Straight)
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Happiness can only be found if you free yourself from all other distractions. --Saul Bellow (in 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy)
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Happiness is like jam, you can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself. --Vern McLellan (in The Business 9 Women Kept Secret For 30 Years)
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Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time. --Andrew Weil (in How to Be Happy: The Fine Print)
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The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. --Lew Wallace (in My Daughter's Noble Sacrifice)
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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. --Maurice Chevalier (in Happiness the Hard Way)
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Giving brings happiness at every stage of its expression. --The Buddha (in The Generosity Paradox)
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. --Richard Bach (in The Gift That Matters)
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. --Richard Bach (in The Gift That Matters)
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How do you say "thank you" for sunshine or health...for clear days or gentle rains...for happiness, joy or love? You say it by sharing what you have. You say it by making the world a better place in which to live. --Thomas D. Willhite (in Gratitude, Gifting and Grandpa)
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. --Storm Jameson (in Six Ways to Sustainable Happiness)
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. --William E. Gladstone (in 25 Choices that Lead to Happiness)
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. --Alfred Lord Tennyson (in Debunking the Myths of Happiness)
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People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human -- in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost. --Michael Pollan (in Rituals for Wastelands)
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in How to Make Giving Feel Good)
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"When you give of yourself, and genuinely care for others, the universe will provide that love, care and happiness for you too." --Anne-Marie Bauer (in Lessons In Living From A Cat Named Ali)
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in What Are The Secrets To A Happy Life? )
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. --Charles H. Spurgeon (in Material World: A Global Family Portrait)
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Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. --Thomas Jefferson (in How Fruit Auctions Are Helping Farmers Thrive)
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Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. --John Stuart Mill (in What Does Happiness Conceal?)
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The key to success, the key to happiness, is opening your mind and your heart to love. ---John Legend- (in All In On Love)
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The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Why The Capacity For Boredom Is A Good Thing)
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The secret of happiness is, find something more important than you are dedicate your life to it. --Daniel Dennet (in Rethinking the Placebo Effect)
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Happiness is a warm puppy. --Charles M. Schulz (in An Act of Dog: An Artist's Effort To Foster Compassion)
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. --Socrates (in The Dean Who Lives In A Dumpster)
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Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Is There A Right Way To Get Angry?)
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When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. --The 14th Dalai Lama (in 34 Images of Heart-Warming Humanity)
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. --Charles Spurgeon (in Which Countries Are The Happiest?)
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Happiness is a choice that I can make no matter how grim circumstances might seem. The joy of being alive is always attainable at some level. --Patti Pansa (in No Regrets: Living With Dying)
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ---Mahatma Gandhi- (in A Brief History of Happiness)
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We all have a treasure inside us. That treasure is a spirit. That spirit is a beauty, peace, enjoyment: a happiness. My creativity is a kind of digging tool for searching out that treasure. --Zoshi (in Spirit Carver: A Conversation with Zoshi)
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. --Charles Spurgeon (in The Gift of Being Sincerely Enthusiastic)
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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. --Jose Marti (in Why Free Money Day Makes You Richer)
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. --Immanuel Kant (in The Secrets to a Happy Life)
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Happiness is an inside job. --William Arthur Ward (in The Surgeon General on Health Via Happiness)
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Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. --John Stuart Mill (in Does Trying To Be Happy Make Us Unhappy?)
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The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
Plutarch
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