Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleWriting is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
Georges SimenonHappiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar LevantWe exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore De BalzacTo show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J B PriestleyIt is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
Dale TurnerThe highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheLife in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George SandAt the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled [idea of happiness]
Brenda BlethynLove is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert HeinleinTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben JonsonHappiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam SmithI played it endlessly [walking back to happiness] - it was like the first kiss, the beginning of a love affair with pop music that continues to the present day.
Mick BrownHappiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert FrostTime the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac DisraeliBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert CamusHappiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fedor DostoevskySuccess 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 HillHappiness 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 greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances
Martha WashingtonDo you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
Harold GeneenHappiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas JeffersonYou traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
HoraceScarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry FieldingWhen 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 WilderWhether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George EliotAll who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord ByronHappiness is no laughing matter
Richard WhatelyWhat we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund FreudCelebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda BradleyThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
EpictetusHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Chuang TzuMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fedor DostoevskyWe must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell MaltzHappiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean Jacques RousseauIt is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much
Bernard FontenelleHe 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 JohnsonHappiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin SpockI am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord ByronHappiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny CarsonThe two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur SchopenhauerThat is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa CatherPoliticians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleMorality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Imannuel KantA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane AustenIndeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint AugustineThe secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
Olivia Goldsmith'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 DaneshHappiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Socrates
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