Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Alice Meynell
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle
Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Matthew Allen
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy
Benjamin Disraeli
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle
Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Matthew Allen
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides
Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
John M. Good
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Author Unknown
"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it..."
Jacques Prévert
If you want to be happy, be
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
ust as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Niccolo Machiavelli
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
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
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
ust as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Niccolo Machiavelli
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
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
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
