What People Say About Happiness
Happiness is found in doing...”
What do other people say about happiness? Well, here are 21 seriously thoughtful quotes from wiser minds. Some of which go right back to Ancient Greece. Amazing.
- "Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses". Dale Carnegie
- "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open". John Barrymore
- "Happiness seems made to be shared". Pierre Corneille
- "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life". Linus Pauling
- "You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness". Percy Ross
- "Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul". Democritus
- "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get". Dale Carnegie
- "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected". George Washington
- "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will". Epictetus
- "Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels". Bertolt Brecht
- "Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket". Robert Orben
- "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness". Charles Spurgeon
- "The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing". Napoleon Hill
- "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring". Carl Sandburg
- "Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment". Author Unknown
- "Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way". Sophocles
- "Happiness is a direction, not a place". Sydney Harris
- "Happiness is like coke[as in the coking kind] -something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else". Author Unknown
- "Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye". Austin O'Malley
- "Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse". Adam Smith