Happiness Quotes

Forget being a bad failure, use Cosmic Ordering and be good at success.

Stephen Richards

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Henry St. John

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Jane Austen

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

John D. Rockefeller

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Christopher Hitchens

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Austin O'Malley

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself

Aristotle

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

Barry Took

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Marquis de Sade

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Kitty Kelley

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Epictetus

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

Joseph Barbara

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

If there was no Cosmic Ordering then it would have been necessary to invent it.

Stephen Richards