Happiness Quotes

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal

God, Both, Within

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

Knowledge, Through, Reason

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell

Change, Hope, Needs

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian

Wish, Leave, Miserable

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant

God, Happy, Ourselves

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas

Fight, Order, Conquer

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Friedrich Schiller

Change, Happy, Cannot

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand

Life, Love, May

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold

Strangers, Grows, Gardens

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg

Secret, Admire, Desiring

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

May, Perfect, Moment

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten

Brains, Capable, Hearts

Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris

Place, Direction

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide

Nothing, Memory, Prevents

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, Absence, Mastery

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson

True, Friends, Choice

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France

Love, Down, Write

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard

Hard, Pretty, Poverty

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides

God, Stay, Sails

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
David Lee Roth

Money, Enough, Big

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant

Experience, Remember

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch

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