Quotes about happiness

Happiness is temporary and fleeting. … Joy is the right goal.

Guy Kawasaki

Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted.

Benjamin Franklin

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

Arthur Schopenhauer

What I do maintain is that success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.

Bertrand Russell

Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

14th Dalai Lama

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

Tim Ferriss

It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what’s important and what makes you happy.

Eckhart Tolle

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feather

Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.

Leo Burnett