Happiness Quotes - Page 26

• We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, You Make Me Happy, Thinking

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• Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

  Mary Cantwell

  Silence, Landscape, Connections

  Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Insperational, Glasses

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.227

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• I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

  John Green

  Happy, Best Wishes, Want

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• When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

  Alan Alda

  Peace, Laughter, Humorous

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• We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

  Cyril Connolly

  Passion, Justice, Atheism

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• If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

  Samuel Johnson

  Beer, Men, Alcohol

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 452 (21 March 1776)

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• Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

  Alexander Pope

  Laughter, Truth, Men

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others, to which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”

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• Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

  Marcel Proust

  Laughter, Joy, Purpose

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1178, Wordsworth Editions

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• Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happy, Heart, Goal

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• Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

  Ann Brashares

  Being Happy, Sisterhood, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Mar 01, 2012

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• When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  F. H. Bradley

  Secret, Admiration, Admire

  Aphorisms (1930) no. 33

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• Happiness is living by inner purpose.

  David W Augsburger

  Purpose

  David W. Augsburger (1982). “From Here to Maturity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Two, Nurse

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• Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Dry, Pretty Things, Utilitarianism

  Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.64

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• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Happy, Money

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Thinking, Pleasure

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

  Nicole Kidman

  Wisdom, Future, Desire

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 14, 2016

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• What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
  [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]

  Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

  Men, Liberty, Affair

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• Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

  Thomas Browne

  World, Next, Felicity

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 4

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• Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

  Mort Walker

  Laughter, Heart, Joy

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• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Long, Inner Peace

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.467

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• This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Money, You Make Me Happy

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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