Happiness Quotes - Page 10

• Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Inspirational, Positive, Thank You

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• I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Pride, Thinking, Proud

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)”, p.5878, e-artnow

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• The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

  Graham Greene

  Pain, Identity, Nerves

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

  Stephen Fry

  Sorry, Cheer Up, Feelings

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• You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Knows

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• You can't buy happiness

  Kurt Cobain

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• Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

  Anthony de Mello

  Sorry, Fear, Lying

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.54, Image

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• Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Dry, Pretty Things, Utilitarianism

  Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.64

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• A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

  John Ray

  Joy, Inner Peace, Christmas Love

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• Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Joy, Taste

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• To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Laughter, Past

  "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell, (Ch. 13), 1930.

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• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, You Make Me Happy, Compassion

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

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• When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, People

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• The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

  Colley Cibber

  Unhappy, Hours, Whole

  Colley Cibber (1777). “The double gallant; Ximena; the comical lovers; The non-juror”, p.83

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• The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

  Robert Breault

  Burden Of Proof, Secret, Finding Happiness

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• Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

  Robert Breault

  Remember

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• I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

  Ray Kroc

  Men, Problem, Responsible

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.9, St. Martin's Griffin

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• He who is good is happy.

  William Habington

  William Habington, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1812). “Castara: With a Preface and Notes”, p.147

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• Happiness depends upon ourselves.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Adventure, Positivity

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Conscious, Pursuit, Activity

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Wild Geese, Literature

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.417, e-artnow

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• A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Focus, Idlers

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4583, e-artnow

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• When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.83, Verso

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• Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

  Albert Einstein

  Journey, Men, Knowing

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• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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