What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam SmithHappiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas JeffersonHappiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Richard BachHappiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John StosselThe supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved
Victor HugoJust 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 FreudMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fedor DostoevskyHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
W B YeatsThe highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheI 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 FargoWhen what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm ForbesHappiness is no laughing matter
Richard WhatelyHappiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonThere 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 NashHow 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 SmithSuccess 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 HillHappiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin SpockI do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
Phyllis McGinleyA good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Josh BillingsThose who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook JacksonTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben JonsonThe greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances
Martha WashingtonThe habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville KleiserThat is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa CatherMan 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 Dostoevsky'I now know happiness isn't about being in the press, getting good reviews or always being seen as a winner. It's about doing what you enjoy through the highs and lows, accepting what's on your plate and making the most of it...'
Darius DaneshI never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
Max KauffmanThousands 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.
BuddhaGod... doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace.
Patricia HeatonTo show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J B PriestleyAchievement 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 RandThe person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWhoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo DerekHappiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar LevantI 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 ButlerHenley is full of haughty happiness, hats, haves and very few have-nots.
Frank KeatingToday well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
Francis GrayWe're charm'd with distant views of happiness,
But near approaches make the prospect less.
Thomas YaldenHappiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest HemingwayWhat 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 FreudHappiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIf 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 RussellHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George BurnsNo period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Horatio AlgerSelf-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre MauroisHappiness 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 SzaszPoliticians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleWe exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore De BalzacDo not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PlutarchHappiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
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