Top 100 Happiness But Quotes
#1. I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
Ayn Rand
#2. Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.
Carew Papritz
#3. I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#4. If life has any meaning or purpose, you won't find it in happiness, but in something more rational, in something greater.
Anton Chekhov
#5. Money won't buy you happiness, but it'll pay for the search
Prince
#6. So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#7. You say that money doesn't bring happiness... but you have them... don't ya?
If they don't bring happiness give them to average class and the result will be called "Bringing happiness!
Deyth Banger
#8. He found, quite to his surprise, that he was happy. Not merely happy in Demelza's happiness but in himself. He couldn't think why. The condition just existed within him.
Winston Graham
#9. Being in love is not always happiness, but being happy is always in love
Hisham Fawzi
#11. Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.
Swami Vivekananda
#12. All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.
Estelle Ramey
#13. It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.
Andre Maurois
#14. Money might not be able to buy happiness, but it made misery more bearable.
Ava Gray
#15. Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.
Kerry Greenwood
#16. You can't buy happiness, but you can buy books and that's kind of the same thing.
Anonymous
#17. I don't necessarily buy any key to the future of happiness, but I need a little place in the sun sometimes or I think I will die.
Patty Griffin
#18. He was not trying to buy happiness, but simply an absence of unhappiness.
Paul Auster
#19. You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
Sergey Brin
#20. Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.
Richard Gere
#21. People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.
Rush Limbaugh
#22. One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
Coco Chanel
#23. We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life ...
Joko Beck
#24. So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [ ... ] Learning to live is learning to let go.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#25. She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.
Joe Hill
#26. Well, you get my point: You've go one life with zero guarantees, so you do your best, adapt if possible, and keep on breathing. I recommend striving for happiness, but many opt for duty and responsibility. Mileage varies.
Beth Harbison
#27. Money can't buy happiness. But it sure can rent it for a while.
Kim Gruenenfelder
#28. Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.
Ian K. Smith
#29. Every human desires peace and happiness, but only a few have the goal to attain those.
Debasish Mridha
#30. You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
Alyson Noel
#31. I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
Vanessa Paradis
#32. Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.
Ellen Glasgow
#33. Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!
Anton Chekhov
#34. She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end - that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness.
Thomas Love Peacock
#35. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.
Haruki Murakami
#36. Maybe money can't buy happiness, but it can rent it for a long time.
Don Winslow
#37. There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it's not very expensive ... it's very democratic, and everyone has acesss to it. It is: Find someone who needs help and help him for no ulterior motive.
Yossi Vardi
#38. If I live for you, I can fulfill your happiness, but if you allow me to then you don't care about mine.
James L. Craig
#39. No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change
Barbara De Angelis
#40. Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.
Nan Fairbrother
#41. Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.
Travis Bradberry
#42. This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life's blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing
Kelseyleigh Reber
#43. You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a spirit. With these three working together, you can walk the high road that leads to achievement and happiness. But this will require effort and sacrifice and faith.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#44. In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
Ann Voskamp
#45. Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
Simon Sinek
#46. Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.
Debra Messing
#47. It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.
C.S. Lewis
#48. No sin has ever made any person happy. Sin simply cannot bring happiness, but it can deliver pleasure, and
when we confuse pleasure with happiness, we are wide open to the seduction of the enemy.
R.C. Sproul
#49. Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
Nicholas Sparks
#50. One interesting conclusion is that money does indeed bring happiness. But only up to a point, and beyond that point it has little significance. For
Yuval Noah Harari
#51. [Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book.
Marietta Holley
#53. Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#54. [On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#55. I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love
Whitney Houston
#56. We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?
Debasish Mridha
#57. The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.
Carl Jung
#58. We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.
Russell Peters
#59. Good experiences give us happiness but bad experiences teach us good lessons
Michael Morpurgo
#60. We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
Park Geun-hye
#61. The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.
Robert A. Johnson
#62. Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary
Napoleon Hill
#63. Money may not buy happiness, but it allows you to shop in better places for it.
Christopher Pike
#64. To choose anything besides God is to be deceived by the "Father of Lies" who promises happiness but delivers death.
Lorilyn Roberts
#65. Dentistry is a precondition to love at first sight. When your eyes meet she beams with happiness, but when you smile back she shows her true reflexes.
Bauvard
#66. We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it ...
Rajneesh
#67. It is true money will not buy you real happiness, but as a personal preference I would much rather have an angry strangle wank in the comfort of a private jet en route to Monte Carlo, than in a broom closet in the basement of a seedy crack house in Bangkok
Ade Bozzay
#68. Misery can hold back happiness but Laughter can outlast any Tragedy
Sonny Cele
#69. Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#70. I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
Jamaica Kincaid
#71. I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille
#72. You can't have it both ways, Jess. There's are sure thing and then there's happiness--- but you gotta take the risk.
Sallyann Murphey
#73. In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#74. We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.
Walther Rathenau
#75. It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.
Laura Lippman
#76. It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now
Edith Wharton
#77. No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
Quentin Crisp
#78. Meditation ... puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness a more refined version of the problem you already have.
Sam Harris
#79. Money dosen't buy happiness but I understand the despair is excellent.
Phillip Harris
#80. Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan
#81. Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.
Besa Kosova
#82. Annie laughed. She had a face, a body, made not for a Paris runway but for good meals and books by the fire and laughter. She was constructed from, and for, happiness. But it had taken Annie Gamache a long while to find it. To trust it.
Louise Penny
#83. Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
Agatha Christie
#84. Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.
James Lee Burke
#85. If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
Anton Chekhov
#86. Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
#87. Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's enough of both lots for him.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#88. All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
Terry Pratchett
#89. In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?"
"No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.
Libba Bray
#90. People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.
Sebastian Horsley
#91. Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.
Corra May Harris
#92. I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
Graham Greene
#93. Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
Samuel Beckett
#94. How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?
Theodore Dalrymple
#95. I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.
Dolly Parton
#96. It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
Daniel Kahneman
#97. Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.
Allan Pease
#98. But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
Virginia Woolf
#99. You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does
Sri Chinmoy
#100. Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.
Margaret Fuller
