Happiness Quotes

"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."
Winston Churchill

"What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her"
Oscar Wilde

"We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were ... Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily"
Jean Rhys

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
James Barrie

"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."
Aristotle

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
John Mill

"Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool."
John Mason

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
Robert Green Ingersoll

"A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."
George Bernard Shaw