A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Josh BillingsPart of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent PealeThe man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Richard NixonSuccess in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
Napoleon HillToday well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
Francis GrayIt is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J B PriestleySometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps
Paulo CoelhoHe who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel JohnsonHenley is full of haughty happiness, hats, haves and very few have-nots.
Frank KeatingScarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry FieldingThat action is best which procures the greatest happiness of the greatest number
Francis HutchesonFate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don MarquisYou are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusThis tour takes the rarely seen trophy - the jewel in the crown of world football - to fans around the world, with the aim of spreading happiness and hope to make the world a better place.
Sepp BlatterHappiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin SpockHappiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Douglas William JerroldMoney can't buy you happiness.
AnonymousIf there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand RussellWhat ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach
Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheHappiness is realising that nothing is too important.
Antonio GalaI understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward GibbonWhen God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton WilderTime the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac DisraeliSince sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies
Thomas GrayThere is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Mary WortleyHappiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. [an intriguing definition of happiness there!]
Joyce GrenfellHappiness is the sense that one matters.
Sarah TrimmerAll who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord ByronWe call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph RouxWe can give thanks for our health and happiness, the support we receive from our families and friends, some wonderful memories and the excitement that each new day brings
Queen Elizabeth IIHappiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonHappiness is no laughing matter
Richard WhatelyHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Chuang TzuAchievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn RandAs it is for the good of all and the general happiness of the nation, I am ready and willing. Tell the people I'm staying.
Pedro IThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusHappiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak ChopraHappiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim RohnHappiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John StosselThere is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis DiderotHappiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris MurdochI really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.
Donna FargoNo one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De AngelisSuch happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavour to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John DeweySuccess is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love
what you are doing, you will be successful
Herman CainHappiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
AristotleThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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