We 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 is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Richard BachThe art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas TraherneNo period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Horatio AlgerDerive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri MatisseIn theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz KafkaTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben JonsonThe secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
Olivia GoldsmithThe foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet
James OppenheimWhen 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 WilderThat action is best which procures the greatest happiness of the greatest number
Francis HutchesonPoliticians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleIndeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint AugustineFate 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 MarquisThe thing about happiness is that too many people seek their individual happiness, when it is so much better to share it around.
John HarriganThat is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa CatherHappiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose BierceNever mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter F DruckerRob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness
Henrik IbsenA lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth
George Bernard Shaw'I now know happiness isn't about being in the press, getting good reviews or always being seen as a winner. It's about doing what you enjoy through the highs and lows, accepting what's on your plate and making the most of it...'
Darius DaneshThere is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis DiderotSome cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go
Oscar WildeHappiness in old age is, more than anything else, preserving the privileges of privacy.
Harold AzineHappiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonI never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
Max KauffmanCelebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda BradleyScarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry FieldingAn effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia Maria ChildHappiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney HarrisSince sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies
Thomas GrayHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George BurnsWhen ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas MertonHappiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris MurdochWhat can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam SmithI saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur RimbaudWhen a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SophoclesIt is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much
Bernard FontenelleHenley is full of haughty happiness, hats, haves and very few have-nots.
Frank KeatingNo real happiness is found
In trailing purple o'er the ground.
Thomas ParnellToday well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
Francis GrayThe 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 NixonHappiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest HemingwayHappiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adult
Thomas SzaszHappiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Douglas William JerroldSelf-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre MauroisHappiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell HolmesHappiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you
Nathaniel HawthorneHappiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant
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