Much More Happiness Quotes

#1. Thus one finds much more happiness in the world than sad eyes see, if one only reckons rightly, and does not forget all those moments of comfort in which every day is rich, even in the most harried of human lives.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way ..

Christopher Hitchens

#3. You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Tony Hawk

#4. The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

Paula Cole

#5. When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

Dorothy Day

#6. Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness.

Santosh Kalwar

#7. We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.

Jean Liedloff

#8. How we pursue the goal of happiness matters at least as much, perhaps more, than the goal itself. They are, in fact, one and the same, means and ends. A virtuous life necessarily leads to a happy life.

Eric Weiner

#9. It was probably a mistake to pursue happiness; much better to create happiness; still better to create happiness for others. The more happiness you created for others the more would be yours-a solid satisfaction that no one could ever take away from you.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#10. But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness. Yet the name Paris makes me feel it.

Anne Rice

#11. To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

Lewis Carroll

#12. But I've wept so much,' she said to Delay. 'Now I don't cry any more. When you don't cry it's because you no longer believe in happiness.

Justine Picardie

#13. People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can't

Stephen Fry

#14. Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often ... You don't have to talk; you don't have to agree on anything; all you have to do is smile! Smiling breaks barriers; it eases tension, and it's the first step to making a new friend.

Tom Giaquinto

#15. We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

Joseph Hall

#16. People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

Adrien Brody

#17. I'm giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy any more, but you do.

Jojo Moyes

#18. By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress depend much less upon what challenges life may bring and infinitely more on how we face and overcome those challenges.

Lloyd D. Newell

#19. Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy - and if I'm not, I don't know the difference. Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be - that's much more important than just being happy.

Bob Dylan

#20. At any age there is future one doesn't have. Never enough life when you are happy, that was the thing. Never so much bliss that you can't take a little more.

Howard Jacobson

#21. Our society in general has is more money equals more happiness and all the research has shown that that's true up to a point, up until you can get your basic needs met, but then really there is other stuff that has a much bigger impact on your happiness besides just money.

Tony Hsieh

#22. Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

George Bernard Shaw

#23. When we have simplicity we have so much more freedom in every single aspect of our lives. Maybe it's a classic case of less is more? Less stress, less worries, more time, more happiness.

Evan Sutter

#24. The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

Calvin Coolidge

#25. Perhaps Danish happiness is not really happiness at all, but something much more valuable and durable: contentedness, being satisfied with your lot, low-level needs being met, higher expectations being kept in check.

Michael Booth

#26. This is it-the life I saw when I dreamed of our future. It was always you, me, and her, but this is just the beginning. There's so much more to come. More life together. More happiness. More babies.

Georgia Cates

#27. Hope was a luxury Melora could barely allow. It was more painful than sorrow, more hurtful than disappointment because it represented a potential: the potential for happiness. If only her happiness didn't depend so much on other people, she'd be fine.

Marie Zhuikov

#28. Much too oft we make life gloomy
When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

#29. We're capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

Sharon Salzberg

#30. I can't help feeling that people ask too much [of life]. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more
they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap.

Elizabeth Cadell

#31. He wanted Charlotte's happiness more than his own. But how much greater would his own be if they were together? Somehow, sometime---maybe when she flirted with him over sour ale, maybe when she bandaged his arm---she had come to rest upon his heart.
Somehow, he had come to love her.

Theresa Romain

#32. I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven't had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public's. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

Maria Callas

#33. Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us. I

Eric Metaxas

#34. I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

Gisele Bundchen

#35. Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

Oliver Burkeman

#36. I cared about you too much," said Dumbledore simply. "I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth,

J.K. Rowling

#37. If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

Terry Waite

#38. How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#39. With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

C.S. Lewis

#40. Life's much more pleasing when you don't have to spend all of your time thinking.

David Eddings

#41. I do not wish you much happiness
it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#42. His hands framed her face again, his amber eyes alive with love, with tenderness. "I want to make a vow to you. I'll love you with everything in me. I'll bring you as much happiness as I can give you. But I cannot allow your death, not at my hands. You're more important than I am.

Christine Feehan

#43. Yet too much happy bores. He stretched more, more. Are you not happy in your? Twang. It snapped.

James Joyce

#44. Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.

Dalai Lama

#45. Happiness? But that is so middle-class. What is happiness? There are so many things in life so much more important than happiness.

Ayn Rand

#46. We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Emma Thompson

#47. Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

Deepak Chopra

#48. There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their proper place in a long life in which I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right.

P.D. James

#49. It was a shame, really, to have that much beauty. God could have divided up his thick eyelashes, strong features, hazel eyes, and delicious mouth among three men, therefore giving more women a chance at happiness.

Alessandra Torre

#50. If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

Simone De Beauvoir

#51. It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.

Ed Diener

#52. Imagination is much more important than innovation. There will be no innovation without vivid imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#53. Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions

Duncan William Gibbons

#54. My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.

John Caudwell

#55. If earthly fathers, who are sinful, ordinarily want to make their children happy, "how much more" committed is our perfect heavenly Father to our well-being and happiness?

Timothy J. Keller

#56. Love is the treasure of life, so spend it as much as you can. As you spend, the universe will be richer and friendlier. It will pay you back a thousand times more.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Being content isn't good enough. You deserve so much more - passion, joy, and excitement...

Nancee Cain

#58. Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Charles Caleb Colton

#59. What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#60. Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my dears, it's more horseshit.

Amy Bloom

#61. Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.

Thomas Huxley

#62. Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

Gary Hopkins

#63. Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

Dennis Prager

#64. I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

Paula Cole

#65. Don't be fooled by your emptiness,
there's so much more room for happiness.

Kaskade

#66. Congratulations on your well deserved retirement,
Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead.
No lying about your age, more lying around the house
After lying much longer in bed

John Walter Bratton

#67. More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning.

Arianna Huffington

#68. Both money and health contribute to happiness mostly in the negative; the lack of them brings much more unhappiness than possessing them brings happiness.
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Gretchen Rubin

#69. As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

Shawn Achor

#70. Radical Forgiveness is much more than the mere letting go of the past. It is the key to creating the life that we want, and the world that we want. It is the key to our own happiness and the key to world peace. It is no longer an option. It is our destiny.

Colin Tipping

#71. What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#72. I do
sincerely trust that the benediction that is always
awaiting me in my garden may by degrees be more
deserved, and that I may grow in grace, and
patience, and cheerfulness, just like the happy
flowers I so much love.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#73. You are the greatest wife of all times and I love you so much more' said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita

#74. Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.

Paulo Coelho

#75. Happiness was attainable for anyone who had enough courage to reach for it. Just because I had to reach further than some only made it that much more appreciated. Today, in this moment, I was wrapping both hands around my happiness, grabbing it tight. Hopper's

Cambria Hebert

#76. Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more.

Ernie J Zelinski

#77. Goals are important but what you become to achieve goals is much more important.

Debasish Mridha

#78. 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.

Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne

#79. Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.

Albert Einstein