Quotations about Happiness

"The most perfect society is that whose purpose
is the universal and supreme happiness."
-Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-

"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-

 "If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
-Henry Miller-

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands,
but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
-Maxim Gorky- 

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular
cause for being happy except that they are so."
-William Ralph Inge- 

"It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time and be bored all the while."
-Don Marquis-  

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
-John Milton-

"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
-Henri B. Stendhal-

"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."
-Samuel Johnson-   

"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."
-Dale Carnegie-  

 "Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel,
but very dry to talk about."
-Jeremy Bentham-

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-Ernest Hemingway-  

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
-Aristotle-  

"To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness."
-Johann G. Fichte-  

"I am happy and content because I think I am."
-Alain-René Lesage-

"How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel
on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes."
-Dean Hamer- 

 “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
  -Anne Frank-

 “You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.”
-Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care-