Great Happiness Quotes - Page 9

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Life, Happiness, Happy

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1417, Barbour Publishing

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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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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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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 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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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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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Roald Dahl

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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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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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hill

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness, Success, Happy

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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

William Ralph Inge

Happiness, Success, Happy

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

Emma ch. 30 (1816)

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

George Orwell

Life, Happiness, Happy

George Orwell (1946). “Critical Essays”

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

Inspirational, Happiness, Memories

Time, August 28, 1972.

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If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

Dalai Lama

Happiness, Attitude, Atmosphere

"Why We Behave". Book by Maurice Cayem, p. 92, 2009.

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When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

Dalai Lama

Happiness, Brother, Laughter

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Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

A. A. Milne

Happiness, Happy, Thinking

A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.133, Egmont UK

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

Happiness, Happy, People

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.103, Book Tree

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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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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Norman Lear

Life, Happiness, Gratitude

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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Alexandre Dumas

Happiness, Grief, Sadness

Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Count of Monte Cristo: {Complete & Illustrated}”, p.1620, eKitap Projesi

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