Famous happiness quotes

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

Dale Carnegie

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Aristotle

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Peace Pilgrim

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The learned is happy, nature to explore,.

Alexander Pope

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

George Sand

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Alexander Pope

No one is happy all his life long.

Euripides

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Helen Keller

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

When one door of happiness closes, another opens.

Helen Keller

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Ogden Nash

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

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

Albert Camus

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 which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Ogden Nash

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

William James

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness. It has no taste.

Charlotte Brontë

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Arthur Rubinstein

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

August Strindberg

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Booth Tarkington

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Happiness is having a legitimate excuse for not attending a Bar Mitzvah.

George Burns

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not what happiness really is.

Alanis Morissette

Happiness is your dentist saying it won't hurt, and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Peter O'Donovan