Happiness Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

— Andrew Solomon

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

— Ajahn Sumedho

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.

— Dalai Lama

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for…

— William Morris

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our…

— Hermann Hesse

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life…

— Franz Kafka

It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives.

— Debbie Ford

Eventually we learn to define happiness for ourselves, on our own terms, in spite of the pain other people have caused us.

— Joseph January

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in…

— Jack Gilbert

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what…

— Samuel Richardson