Happiness Quotes
Happiness quotes and links to happiness quotes:Happiness Quotes: Favourites
Happiness quotes, favourite: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - Thomas Jefferson, quote from the Declaration of Independence
"If you seek approval, ask yourself why you want approval in the first place. The answer is ultimately, you want to be happy and you feel that approval is pleasurable and will give you happiness. Realizing how much needless suffering your approval seeking causes you, will motivate you to strive to master an attitude that allows you to feel happy even when people fail to show you honor and approval. It is ironic that something you want for happiness causes you so much unhappiness. By giving up your demand for approval, you will ensure yourself greater happiness in life." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin (Gateway to Happiness)
"Would you rather feel worse than you have to? Do you want to choose to feel happy? At the root of complaining is thinking that the situation could be better. At the root of satisfaction is being aware that the situation could be worse. In almost all instances things could be worse and they could be better. To master happiness a person needs to have a constant awareness that things are better than they could be."- Rabbi Zelig Pliskin (Gateway to Happiness)
"This is the true joy in life--the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." - George Bernard Shaw.
"It is a key to great happiness to know you can make anything out of anything." - Robert Holden: "Happiness Now!" quote.
Happiness Quotes: Others
"There are few unambiguous blessings in life ... so why not choose the perspective that gives you pleasure?" - Dennis Prager: Happiness quotes from "Happiness is a Serious problem".
"I find nothing more depressing than optimism" - Paul Fussell, who doesn't produce many happiness quotes
"Authentic happiness comes from cultivating your most fundamental strengths and using them every day in work, love, play, and parenting" - Authentic Happiness: Quotes by Martin Seligman
"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious." - Horace: happiness quotes from the ancient world.
"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed." - Bertrand Russell: happiness quotes.
"Happiness is the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads." - Albert Camus
"Happiness is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself." - Norman Vincent Peale.
"Happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out – and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot." - George Burns
"We're a couple of sports, The pride of the tennis courts, In June, July, and August, We look cute when we're dressed in shorts." - Irving Berlin
