Happiness Quotes and Proverbs

Here you have a selection happiness quotes from wise men and women and proverbs about happiness from all over the world. Of course, living a fabulous life is all about being happy - and a lot is said about what that means.

Happiness Proverbs

Happiness isn’t for sale in the market. Persian proverb

Happiness is a cow that shows its head to someone and its tail to others. Italian proverb

Happiness is to love in peace. Chinese proverb

A handful of happiness is better than a load full of wisdom. Russian proverb

You can always dance when happiness plays. Frisian proverb

Be happy while y’er leevin, for y’er a long time deid Scottish proverb

Happiness is the seed of sorrow; sorrow is the seed of happiness. Japanese proverb

Happiness has a small body. Yoruba proverb

When you get your hands on happiness, hold onto it. Italian proverb

After rain comes sun. International proverb

Some has happiness; most have summer, all have God. Finnish proverb

You need strong shoulders to carry happy days. Swedish proverb

You’re the blacksmith of your own happiness. Norwegian proverb

Happiness Quotes

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw, Candida

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss of Paradise that has surviv’d the fall William Cowper, The Garden

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Jane Austen, Emma

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? Jane Austen

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan

And always somewhere on earth the sun rises. Andre Bjerke

Happiness is no laughing matter. Richard Whately, Apophthegms

The action is best which produces the greatest happiness in the greatest numbers. Francis Hutcheson, Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.American Declaration of Independence

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Our object in construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class. Plato, Republic

The world is so full of a number of things I’m sure we should all be happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson, Happy Thought

All I seek, the heaven above and the road below me. Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel

Let us be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. Artemus Ward, Science and Natural History

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; conversely, every lot is happy if you are content with it (Nihil est miserum nisi cum putes; contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimatate tolerantis). De Consolatione Philosophiae)

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.John Stuart Mill, Authobiography

Call no man happy until he’s dead, but only lucky. Herodotus, Histories

One is never so happy or unhappy as one thinks ( On n’est jamais si heurex ni si malheureux qu’on s’imagine.)Francois, Duc de Rochefoucauld

See the happy moron, he doesn’t give a damn. I wish I were a moron. My God – perhaps I am!Eugenics Review 1929

But headlong joy is ever on the wing. In Wintry solstice like the shortn’d light. Soon swallow’d up in dark and long out-living night. John Milton, The Passion

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Leo Tolstoy

Those dancing days are gone. W.B.Yeats

Happiness Quotes from The Bible

Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.

Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy.

To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven (..) A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.

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