True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben JonsonHappiness 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 never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam SmithOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusHappiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it but only YOU can feel the warmth...
Ashton KutcherSuch 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 DeweyHappiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.
Amy LowellNo 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 AngelisWhen a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SophoclesDifferent 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 comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John StosselI 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 GibbonHappiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert FrostScarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry FieldingWhat would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
André GideHappiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George WashingtonSimply seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness, and you will likely be happy much of the time.
Dr M Scott PeckWhat a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Robert E LeeHe 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 JohnsonI am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord ByronMore company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas TraherneMany persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen KellerThe greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances
Martha WashingtonAchievement 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 RandDerive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri MatisseHappiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim RohnTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustav FlaubertUnhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Graham GreeneSuccess 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 HillA lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth
George Bernard ShawAnnual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Charles DickensThere is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis DiderotIt is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much
Bernard FontenelleStorybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
John GardnerIf you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh BillingsThe thing about happiness is that too many people seek their individual happiness, when it is so much better to share it around.
John HarriganHappiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
AristotleThere 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 WortleyNo real happiness is found
In trailing purple o'er the ground.
Thomas ParnellI think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Philip LarkinLovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole FranceThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordNo period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Horatio AlgerSometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps
Paulo CoelhoWhy love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony HopkinsHappiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas JeffersonHappiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. [an intriguing definition of happiness there!]
Joyce GrenfellThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
EpictetusBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
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