Happy Quotes - Page 7

• Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Happiness, Running, Helping Others

  James Freeman Clarke (1877). “The hour which cometh, and now is: sermons”

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Friendship, Happiness, Sympathy

  61 Copy quote

• When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Religious, Prayer, Islamic

  531 Copy quote

• Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

  David Ricardo

  Happiness, Country, Society

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.474

  99 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

  Janet Lane-Claypon

  Love, Life, Relationship

  16 Copy quote

• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

  166 Copy quote

  Show source

• In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

  Leslie Caron

  Happiness, Pain, Order

  52 Copy quote

• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership

  "Looking Forward".

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

  Doug Larson

  Happiness, Laughter, People

  18 Copy quote

• A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Determination, Reflection

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Pain, Two

  102 Copy quote

• The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

  John Selden

  Happiness, Marriage, Sacrifice

  15 Copy quote

• It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

  29 Copy quote

• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.168

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer

  "The Nice And The Good".

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Happiness, Determination

  17 Copy quote

• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

  Don Marquis

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Periods

  16 Copy quote

• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

  109 Copy quote

  Show source

• The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Happiness, Errors

  "What We Live by". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 238, 1932.

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Happiness, Back When, Pennies

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.97, BookBaby

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

  Georges Duhamel

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Happiness, Attitude, Optimism

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Happiness, Men, Honor

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

  Freya Stark

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.27, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

  81 Copy quote

  Show source