I 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 GibbonThe art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher That action is best which procures the greatest happiness of the greatest number
Francis HutchesonAs 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 IAction may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin DisraeliWhen 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 WilderEvery possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.
Amy LowellThose who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook JacksonMany 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 KellerHappiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fedor DostoevskyBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert CamusSorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy
Yevgeny YevtushenkoWe must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell MaltzTell me, what is happiness? - Use of Weapons (prologue)
Iain M Banks The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Richard NixonAt the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled [idea of happiness]
Brenda BlethynWhether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George EliotNever mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter F DruckerHappiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore De BalzacNobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Cab CallowayPerfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.
Gabriela SabatiniHappiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.
John Mason GoodSuccess 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 HillI 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 FargoDo you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
Harold GeneenHappiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Richard BachPart of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent PealeThe greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances
Martha WashingtonYou 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 JewettI 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 ButlerHow selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]
Adam SmithCelebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda BradleyJoy, 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 MayWhat 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 LeeWhoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo DerekAnnual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Charles DickensIf there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand RussellHenley is full of haughty happiness, hats, haves and very few have-nots.
Frank KeatingAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Benedict SpinozaIt is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much
Bernard FontenelleThe 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 TurnerMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fedor DostoevskyThousands 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.
BuddhaHappiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert FrostSuccess is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale CarnegieHappiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George WashingtonHappiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
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