Unhappiness 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 GreeneHappiness is no laughing matter
Richard WhatelySorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy
Yevgeny YevtushenkoMoney can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike MilliganJoy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo MayAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Benedict SpinozaHappiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
AristotleHappiness is realising that nothing is too important.
Antonio GalaThe habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville KleiserI 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 LarkinThousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
BuddhaYou are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusYou traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
HoraceHe 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 JohnsonThat action is best which procures the greatest happiness of the greatest number
Francis HutchesonHappiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak ChopraHappiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney HarrisThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fedor DostoevskyAt the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled [idea of happiness]
Brenda BlethynWe call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph RouxThe person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWriting is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
Georges SimenonLove is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert HeinleinWhen 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 WilderHappiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. [an intriguing definition of happiness there!]
Joyce GrenfellStorybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
John GardnerThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordPoliticians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleWhoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo DerekWhat ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach
Edward Bulwer-LyttonI believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.
Samuel ButlerThe 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 TurnerThere 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 NashAchievement 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 RandAll who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord ByronHappiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fedor DostoevskySuccess 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 the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
Joseph BarbaraIt is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheHappiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris MurdochWhen what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm ForbesOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
W B YeatsWhether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George EliotThe thing about happiness is that too many people seek their individual happiness, when it is so much better to share it around.
John HarriganHappiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell HolmesHappiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim RohnFuture:. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happinesss is assured.
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