What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
André GideHappiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George WashingtonWhen ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas MertonThousands 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.
BuddhaThe 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 is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George BurnsTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustav FlaubertThis life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.
Dan BrownI 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 ButlerEvery possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness lies first of all in health.
George William CurtisHappiness is no laughing matter
Richard WhatelyHappiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it but only YOU can feel the warmth...
Ashton KutcherHappiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adult
Thomas SzaszLovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole FranceI 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 GibbonWhether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George EliotHappiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D RooseveltIt is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon What 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 LeeThere 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 WortleyIt is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas PaineWe 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 MaltzNobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Cab CallowayMan is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fedor DostoevskyAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Benedict SpinozaHappiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you
Nathaniel HawthorneA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane AustenNo real happiness is found
In trailing purple o'er the ground.
Thomas ParnellThose who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook JacksonWhat 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-LyttonHappiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim RohnConsciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Mahatma GandhiWe possess only the happiness we are able to understand
Maurice MaeterlinckDon't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George SandMorality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Imannuel KantSometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps
Paulo CoelhoSorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy
Yevgeny YevtushenkoHappiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak ChopraThe secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
Olivia GoldsmithThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric HofferWe're charm'd with distant views of happiness,
But near approaches make the prospect less.
Thomas YaldenYou traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
HoraceHappiness is a positive cash flow.
Fred AdlerSuccess 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 HillIt is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much
Bernard FontenelleThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordI 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 RimbaudA good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
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