Happiness Quotes
knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
ThucydidesThucydides Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken You need to be happy to live, I don’t.
Keanu ReevesKeanu Reeves I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
Emile ZolaEmile Zola In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Thomas MannThomas Mann The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I’ve really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
David LynchDavid Lynch One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust