Happiness Quotes

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

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

Edmund White

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

Ellen G. White

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

Ellen G. White

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Fanny Burney

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

F. H. Bradley

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

Francesca Lia Block

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

Frederic Chopin

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Frederic Chopin

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Felix Dennis

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Frederick Douglass

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is n...

Francois Fenelon

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

Frederick William Faber

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Franz Kafka

I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.

Francois Lelord

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Frank McCourt

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Freddie Mercury

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld