Future:. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happinesss is assured.
Ambrose BierceThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric HofferTime the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac DisraeliAchievement 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 RandHappiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fedor DostoevskyRob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness
Henrik IbsenThose who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook JacksonIndeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint AugustineThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordHappiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John StosselHappiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell HolmesSuspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea BallouDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleFate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don MarquisWhen a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SophoclesWhy 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 HopkinsTo show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J B PriestleyDo you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
Harold GeneenOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusHappiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris MurdochWe 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 RouxWhat 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-LyttonIt is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much
Bernard FontenelleCharacter is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George SantayanaYou are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusIt 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 JewettThe art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher This tour takes the rarely seen trophy - the jewel in the crown of world football - to fans around the world, with the aim of spreading happiness and hope to make the world a better place.
Sepp BlatterWhen what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm ForbesWe 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 IIAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Benedict SpinozaHappiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.
John Mason GoodHappiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.
Amy LowellI 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 FargoAs it is for the good of all and the general happiness of the nation, I am ready and willing. Tell the people I'm staying.
Pedro ISometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps
Paulo CoelhoGod... doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace.
Patricia HeatonWhat 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 FreudThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
EpictetusWe exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore De BalzacI 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 BrownMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fedor DostoevskyHenley is full of haughty happiness, hats, haves and very few have-nots.
Frank KeatingHappiness is realising that nothing is too important.
Antonio GalaThe highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane AustenI never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
Max KauffmanA good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa SchiapirelliMany 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 KellerLove is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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