Famous Quotes About happiness

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.