Happiness Quotes - Page 33

• Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Numbers, Foundation, Sacred

  "The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham". p. 142,

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• All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Men, Different

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• Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

  Anatole France

  Miserable, Neighbor, Made

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics

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• Read at whim! Read at whim!

  Randall Jarrell

  Whim

  "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables" by Randall Jarrell, (pp. 112-113), 1962.

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• America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Lying, America, Progress

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• I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Sarcastic, Philosophy, Sarcasm

  "The Beginning of the End" by Peter Hershey, (p. 109), 2004.

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• Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.

  George Arnold

  Eye, Night, Hair

  George Arnold, “The Jolly Old Pedagogue”

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• 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Smile, Song

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Worth While”

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• A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

  Anatole France

  Ignorance, Inner Peace, Intellectual

  Anatole France (1923). “The Works of Anatole France in English: The opinions of Jérôme Coignard”

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• If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Life

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• The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Joy, Literature

  The House of the Seven Gables ch. 20 (1851)

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• To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Effort, Source

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Envy

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wife, Proud

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• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  Madame de Stael

  Sweet, Nature, Remembrance

  "A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness" collected and translated by J. D. Finod, (p. 138), 1880.

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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Littles

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.502

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• I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

  Angelina Jolie

  Being Happy, Being Yourself, Fun

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• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Patience, Time, Past

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Health, Doctors, Doors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Practice, Knowing

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Smile, Sad

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

  David Sarnoff

  Laughter, Joy, Mind

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Being Happy, Laughter

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

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• I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, Fool, You Like It

  1599-1600 Rosalind to Jaques. AsYou Like It, act 4, sc.1, l.25-7.

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• Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Happy, Spiritual

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