Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George SantayanaSelf-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre MauroisIf you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh BillingsAchievement 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 RandSuch happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavour to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John DeweyWhy 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 HopkinsHappiness in old age is, more than anything else, preserving the privileges of privacy.
Harold AzineThis life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.
Dan BrownHappiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Richard BachThat is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa CatherSuccess 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 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 PaineIt 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 foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet
James OppenheimA good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Josh BillingsSuccess is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale CarnegieOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben JonsonIndeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint AugustineAs 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 IAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Benedict SpinozaHappiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. [an intriguing definition of happiness there!]
Joyce GrenfellHappiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest HemingwayYou are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusHappiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John StosselThere is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis DiderotThe happiness of society is the end of government.
John AdamsHappiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert FrostWhat 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 FreudTo show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J B PriestleySimply seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness, and you will likely be happy much of the time.
Dr M Scott PeckHappiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.
Amy LowellNo real happiness is found
In trailing purple o'er the ground.
Thomas ParnellAnnual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Charles DickensHappiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak ChopraHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George BurnsUnhappiness 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 GreeneTime the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac DisraeliHappiness is a positive cash flow.
Fred AdlerJust 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 FreudWe possess only the happiness we are able to understand
Maurice MaeterlinckThe thing about happiness is that too many people seek their individual happiness, when it is so much better to share it around.
John HarriganHappiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so no one may touch you who loves you. (Felicita Raggiunta)
Eugenio MontaleHappiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.
John Mason GoodThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric HofferThat action is best which procures the greatest happiness of the greatest number
Francis HutchesonIn theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz KafkaHappiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIt 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 Goethe
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