Real Happiness Quotes

• True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

  Hosea Ballou

  Happiness, Happy, Real

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Storm Jameson (1941). “The End of this War”

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• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Make Others Happy, Chocolate

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• Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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  Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Happiness, Work

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You can never get enough of what you don't want.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Happiness, Spiritual

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

  Robertson Davies

  Happiness, Happy, Worry

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• You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

  Kirsten Dunst

  Happiness, Simple, Satisfaction

  "Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

  Robertson Davies

  Happiness, Happy, May

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Loneliness

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Being Happy, Simple

  "Living Our Values, Closing the Ethical Gap" by Jeffrey Rubin, bigthink.com.

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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  Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 02, 2015

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• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Men, Inner Peace

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• Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Mazes, Routes

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.165

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• Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Happiness, Dream

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

  William Saroyan

  Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer

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• Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

  Anne Frank

  Nature, Believe, Simple

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Happiness, Happy, Littles

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

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