Happiness Quotes

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

Jennifer Aniston

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Joseph Addison

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham
Happiness quotes by John Barrymore, UberQuotes

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

John Belushi

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

John Buchan

The secret of happiness is something to do.

John Burroughs

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

John Burroughs

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

John Mason Brown

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Jose Bergamin

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Joseph Butler

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Joseph Butler

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Joseph Butler

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Joseph Butler

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Josh Billings

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Julian Baggini

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

Jasper Carrott