Quotes About Happiness

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

— Edith Wharton

It is difficult to tell which gives some couples the most happiness, the minister who marries them, or the judge who divorces them.

— Mary Wilson Little

Happiness, like youth and health, is rarely appreciated until it is past.

— Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

— Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

— Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

— Bertrand Russell

Don’t wish me happiness — I don’t expect to be happy...it’s gotten beyond that somehow.  Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor— I will need them all.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

— Eric Hoffer

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is neither wealth or splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

— William Saroyan

Happiness?  A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar, and a good woman — or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

— George Burns

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

— Mark Twain

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

— Bertrand Russell

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.

— G. K. Chesterton

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

— George Santayana

The great source of pleasure is variety.

— Samuel Johnson

To be able to throw oneself away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile — that is happiness.

— Herman Hesse

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

— Cyril Connolly

Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands.

— Psalms 61:1

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

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

— James M. Barrie

Happiness is a warm puppy.

— Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is a warm gun.

— John Lennon and Paul McCartney

A man’s happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

— Victor Hugo

A lifetime of happiness!  No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

— George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is speechless.

— George William Curtis

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

— H. L. Mencken

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

— Thomas Fuller

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine...

— Proverbs 17:22

The happiest person is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Happiness makes up in height for what is lacks in length.

— Robert Frost

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness...I was right.

— Gahan Wilson