All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Benedict SpinozaThere is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Ogden NashWriting is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
Georges SimenonMoney can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike MilliganSince sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies
Thomas GrayI 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 LarkinWe're charm'd with distant views of happiness,
But near approaches make the prospect less.
Thomas YaldenWhat can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam SmithPart of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent PealeIn theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz KafkaMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fedor DostoevskyHappiness is the sense that one matters.
Sarah TrimmerWhether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George EliotA lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth
George Bernard ShawThe habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville KleiserTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben JonsonMoney can't buy you happiness.
AnonymousPerfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.
Gabriela SabatiniHappiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn RandI 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 FargoSometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps
Paulo CoelhoHappiness is realising that nothing is too important.
Antonio GalaYou are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusThere 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 WortleyThis life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.
Dan BrownWhat 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 LeeAt the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled [idea of happiness]
Brenda BlethynHappiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert FrostHappiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.
Amy LowellI am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord ByronI 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 GibbonA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane AustenWhoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo DerekHappiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas JeffersonIt is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses
Sarah Orne JewettDo not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PlutarchHappiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Douglas William JerroldHappiness in old age is, more than anything else, preserving the privileges of privacy.
Harold AzineNo real happiness is found
In trailing purple o'er the ground.
Thomas ParnellIt is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
W B YeatsHappiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin SpockNo 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 AngelisWe possess only the happiness we are able to understand
Maurice MaeterlinckToday well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
Francis GrayHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Chuang TzuLovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole FranceHappiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so no one may touch you who loves you. (Felicita Raggiunta)
Eugenio MontaleSuch 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 DeweyNo period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Horatio Alger
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