Happiness Quotes

• "We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
  By: Maurice Maeterlinck
  Happiness Quotes
• "Happiness and virtue react upon each other--the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best."
  By: Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith")
  Happiness Quotes
• "To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being."
  By: Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury
  Happiness Quotes
• "Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God wills it."
  By: James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal (prelude to pt. I, l. 61)
  Happiness Quotes
• "Happiness, to some elation; Is to others, mere stagnation."
  By: Amy Lowell, Happiness
  Happiness Quotes
• "The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh (ch. XIII)
  Happiness Quotes
• "To be strong Is to be happy!"
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. II, l. 731)
  Happiness Quotes
• "A sound Mind is a sound Body, is a short but full description of a happy State in this World."
  By: John Locke (1), Thoughts Concerning Education
  Happiness Quotes
• "Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not."
  By: John Locke (1)
  Happiness Quotes
• "People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
  By: Abraham Lincoln
  Happiness Quotes
• "The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves."
  By: Prince de Ligne, Karl Joseph
  Happiness Quotes
• "He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy."
  By: Sir Roger L'Estrange
  Happiness Quotes
• "We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. [Fr., On n'est jamais si heureux, ni si malheureux, qu'on se l'imagine.]"
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes
  Happiness Quotes
• "The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
  Happiness Quotes
• "Happiness is in taste and not in things; and it is by having what we love that we are happy, not by having what others find agreeable."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
  Happiness Quotes
• "If you cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
  By: Nikita Khrushchev, in "Time" magazine
  Happiness Quotes