Quotes about happiness
248 quotes from 159 people
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 1Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VII: The Past Recaptured (1927), Ch. III: “An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes”
John Updike1932–2009“How to Love America and Leave it at the Same Time,” Problems and Other Stories (1979)
Carl Jung1875–1961“The Art of Living”, interview with journalist Gordon Young first published in 1960Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VII: The Past Recaptured (1927), Ch. III: “An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes”Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness (1930)Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness (1930)Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Works and Days
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Book IV, Ch. 11
Helen Keller1880–1968We Bereaved (1929)
