HAPPINESS

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mohandas Gandhi

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

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

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

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

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

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Love is trembling happiness.
Khalil Gibran

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

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

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

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

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 smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

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

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

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

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

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 lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon Hill

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie


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

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie

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

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen

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

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx

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 word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis

The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams

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
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell

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

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

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 only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Chuck Palahniuk

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

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 essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus

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

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya
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

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

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Aldous Huxley

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

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

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

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

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

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

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Billy Wilder

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 M. Nixon

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James

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

If 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 Billings

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Josh Billings

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
Henny Youngman

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade

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 does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Richard Bach

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James Madison

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James Madison

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky

Where fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot

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

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

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

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

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
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

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

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 consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan

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

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

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

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori

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

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Thomas Aquinas

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 Yoganand
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max Planck

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
Glenn Beck

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
Chuck Norris

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
Vivien Leigh

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

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Martha Washington

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak Chopra

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

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

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

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Charles Baudelaire

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Freddie Mercury

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Ludwig van Beethoven
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Oswald Chambers

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
Jesse Ventura

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon

But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Stephen Fry

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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 isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
Julia Roberts

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

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

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
David Herbert Lawrence

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
David Herbert Lawrence

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Frank McCourt

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Abdul Kalam

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse

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 is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Arthur Ashe

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

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas Carlyle

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
Dag Hammarskjold

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash

There 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 Nash

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Ted Nugent

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

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Denis Waitley

The right to happiness is fundamental.
Anna Pavlova

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Anna Pavlova

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Anna Pavlova

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Jimmy Carter

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
Giacomo Casanova

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France

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

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana

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 British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Quentin Crisp

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 first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift