Happiness Quotes

Quotes to Inspire Happiness

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.” …We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things. — by Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.” — by F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms

“To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval” — by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

“To be happy one must have a good stomach and a bad heart” — by Bernard De Fontenelle, Dialogues des morts

“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.” — by Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography