Existence Quote by William Cowper

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

— John Mason Brown

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

— Orson Scott Card

Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use…

— Arnaud Desjardins

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

— George Santayana

The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment…

— Billy Graham

“Happiness is not created from things, friends, or even love. Happiness is like money; you have to have it to make it. People are…

— Trey Smith

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Happiness can be found to those persons who made your life worthwhile.

— Grln

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“One of the strangest things in life is the false ideas everywhere prevalent regarding the nature of happiness. The general belief seems to be…

— Orison Swett Marden

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what…

— Anonymous