Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam SmithTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben JonsonI never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
Max KauffmanHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
W B YeatsHappiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled [idea of happiness]
Brenda BlethynIn theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz KafkaIt is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max PlanckHappiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris MurdochAchievement 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 RandWe 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 IIPerfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.
Gabriela SabatiniThe 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 TurnerHappiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George WashingtonThis life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.
Dan BrownSuccess 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 not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert G IngersollThose who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook JacksonHappiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny CarsonAn effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia Maria ChildHappiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse KarrGod... doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace.
Patricia HeatonThat action is best which procures the greatest happiness of the greatest number
Francis HutchesonI 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 RimbaudExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William CowperHappiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas JeffersonThe highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheStorybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
John GardnerBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert CamusMoney can't buy you happiness.
AnonymousA good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Josh BillingsTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustav FlaubertAll who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord ByronHappiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell HolmesTell me, what is happiness? - Use of Weapons (prologue)
Iain M Banks We possess only the happiness we are able to understand
Maurice MaeterlinckHappiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney HarrisPoliticians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane AustenHappiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John StosselThe supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved
Victor HugoCelebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda BradleyTo love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizWe exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore De BalzacYou are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusHappiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak ChopraJust as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund FreudIt is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much
Bernard FontenelleI am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord ByronDerive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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