Self Happiness Quotes - Page 3

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.101, Vintage

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Maria Mitchell

Happiness, Happy, Beauty

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Funny, Happiness, Inspiring

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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

Happiness, Running, Reality

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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

Happiness, Happy, Determination

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Life, Positive, Happiness

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Happiness, Happy, Success

Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

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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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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Anne Frank

Happiness, Happy, Soulmate

1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Positive, Happiness, Happy

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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

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

"Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

"Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Morgan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Love, Inspirational, Funny

Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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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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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier

Happiness, Happy, Women

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Friendship, Happiness, Happy

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

Positive, Thank You, Thanksgiving

FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

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