Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. John Barrymore
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Martha Washington
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy? Albert Einstein
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness. William E. Gladstone
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself. Alice Walker
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin
Achievement 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 Rand
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon
Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Dale Carnegie
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. George Bernard Shaw
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. Mark Twain
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Andre Maurois
Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. Clare Boothe Luce
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. Bernard Meltzer
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
Love is trembling happiness. Khalil Gibran
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost
If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? Leslie Caron
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Ovid
You can be happy where you are. Joel Osteen
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Ayn Rand
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. Lydia M. Child
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. Bertolt Brecht
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. Bette Davis
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. Napoleon Hill
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. Leo Buscaglia
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness. Bertrand Russell
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand
Happiness is an inside job. William Arthur Ward
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Richard Bach
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. Deepak Chopra
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. Andy Rooney
There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness. Aldous Huxley
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. Princess Diana
Never mind your happiness do your duty. Peter Drucker
You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. Julia Roberts
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. Marquis de Sade
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. Lord Byron
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace. Ernie Banks
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. Ambrose Bierce
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. Blaise Pascal
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. Jose Marti
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell
Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. Baltasar Gracian
It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant
When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness. Malcolm Forbes
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. Friedrich Schiller
Don’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 Sand
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. Douglas William Jerrold
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. Maurice Chevalier
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Leo Rosten
Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. Andre Gide
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Ben Jonson
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. Anatole France
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. Euripides
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. David Lee Roth
Happiness isn’t something you experience it’s something you remember. Oscar Levant
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. Joseph Wood Krutch
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. Ashley Montagu
To describe happiness is to diminish it. Stendhal
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. Sophocles
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. Arnold Bennett
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. David Brainerd
Desire is individual. Happiness is common. Julian Casablancas
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. Adam Smith
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. Sarah McLachlan
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. Lucinda Williams
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. John Stuart Mill
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. Benjamin Spock
Happiness seems made to be shared. Pierre Corneille
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. Denis Diderot
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. Ernest Dimnet
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. Sam Levenson
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. Austin O’Malley
Happiness does not consist in self-love. Joseph Butler
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S. Buck
To buy happiness is to sell soul. Douglas Horton
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. John Dryden
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. Alphonse Karr
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. Alphonse Karr
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. George Sand
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. Maurice Maeterlinck
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. William Ellery Channing
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. Leon Kass
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor
The right to happiness is fundamental. Anna Pavlova
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. Joseph Roux
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. Jose Marti
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. F. H. Bradley
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. Andrei Platonov
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. Booth Tarkington
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. Frank McCourt
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. William Dean Howells
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. Alfred de Musset
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn
Thousands 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. Buddha
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha
The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. Benjamin Franklin
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. Dalai Lama
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Euripides
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Benjamin Franklin
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo
Many 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 Keller
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. George Washington
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. William Shakespeare
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true. Audrey Hepburn
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Thomas Jefferson
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. Khalil Gibran
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. John W. Gardner
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment. Mahatma Gandhi
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. Helen Keller
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. Helen Keller
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. Chanakya
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there. Billy Graham
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw
Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. Aristotle
Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Honore de Balzac
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. Plato
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. Ernest Hemingway
Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughan
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Henry David Thoreau
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. Theodore Isaac Rubin
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Independence is happiness. Susan B. Anthony
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. Pablo Picasso
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think. Dale Carnegie
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. Chanakya
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. Nelson Mandela
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. Elbert Hubbard
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. Soren Kierkegaard
The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. Ellen DeGeneres
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. Abdul Kalam
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. Norman Vincent Peale
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung
No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara de Angelis
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. Plato
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. Napoleon Hill
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness. Paulo Coelho
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. Henry Ford
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. Charlie Chaplin
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The happiness of society is the end of government. John Adams
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. Chanakya
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. Daniel Boone
It 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 Paine
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping . Dale Carnegie
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. Bertrand Russell
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. William James
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo
God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. Aldous Huxley
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness. Aeschylus
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle. George Burns
I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. Bertrand Russell
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. Bertrand Russell
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. Suze Orman
What 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 Freud
If 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 a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Red Skelton
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo
A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose. Tom Wilson
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx
Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness. Aldous Huxley
I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Nana Mouskouri
Where fear is, happiness is not. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. Victor Hugo
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. William James
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. Wayne Gretzky
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. Bertrand Russell
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. Maria Montessori
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. George Orwell
Just 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 Freud
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. Richard Bach
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox
Beauty is the promise of happiness. Edmund Burke
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll
When ambition ends, happiness begins. Thomas Merton
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. Epictetus
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. William Blake
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? Chuck Palahniuk
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. James Allen
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel Johnson
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. Blaise Pascal
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. William S. Burroughs
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. Samuel Johnson
Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object. Hermann Hesse
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Ambrose Bierce
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. J. Donald Walters
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. Thomas Carlyle
When you’re passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. Debra Messing
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. Quentin Crisp
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. Thomas Carlyle
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. Alanis Morissette
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. George Santayana
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. Saint Augustine
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery. Frederick Douglass
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. Bryant H. McGill
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Zhuangzi
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man 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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Benjamin Disraeli
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. Prem Rawat
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. Anton Chekhov
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. Samuel Johnson
Why 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 Hopkins
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Charles Caleb Colton
The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. George Eliot
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. Joan Rivers
We 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 Maltz
When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. Suze Orman
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. W. Somerset Maugham
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it. George Eliot
A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. George Eliot
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Arthur Schopenhauer
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Christian Nestell Bovee
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Honore de Balzac
Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. John Ruskin
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. Marquis de Sade
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George A. Sheehan
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. Virginia Woolf
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. David Sarnoff
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. Lord Byron
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Francis Bacon
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. Samuel Johnson
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Spike Milligan
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping. Bo Derek
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Heraclitus
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. Taylor Swift
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. Andre Maurois
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. Langston Hughes
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love. Bo Bennett
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Robert Baden-Powell
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them. P. J. O’Rourke
The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others. Paramahansa Yogananda
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. Harold Kushner
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. William Feather
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. Thomas Huxley
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. Bryant H. McGill
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. Sivananda
I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness. Kanye West
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Samuel Johnson
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. Samuel Johnson
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. Samuel Johnson
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. Samuel Johnson
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Aeschylus
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. Horace
There is no true love save in suffering,