I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
~By Harold Kushner ~
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
~By F. H. Bradley ~
I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
~By Islom Karimov ~
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
~By Julia Roberts ~
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
~By Freya Stark ~
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
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.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
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.
~By Buddha ~
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
~By Louise Hart ~
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
~By Tobey Maguire ~
Where fear is, happiness is not.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
~By Robert Herrick ~
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
~By Stendhal ~
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
~By Charlotte Davis Kasl ~
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.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
~By Antonio Gala ~
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
~By Tom Wilson ~
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
~By George Westinghouse ~
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
~By Bette Davis ~
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
~By Henry Fielding ~
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
~By Epictetus ~
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
~By James Thurber ~
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
~By John Belushi ~
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.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
~By Ausonius ~
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
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.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
~By Sam Levenson ~
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
~By Coretta Scott King ~
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
~By Stendhal ~
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.
~By Jose Marti ~
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
~By Norodom Sihamoni ~
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
~By Dennis Prager ~
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
~By Joyce Grenfell ~
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
~By Charles Van Doren ~
We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
~By Bernard Loiseau ~
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
~By Lord Byron ~
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
~By Donatella Versace ~
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
~By Charles Van Doren ~
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
~By Annni-Frid Lyngstad ~
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.
~By David Wilmot ~
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The will of man is his happiness.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
~By Hugo Black ~
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
~By Jilly Cooper ~
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
~By Alanis Morisette ~
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
~By Joseph Wood Krutch ~
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
~By George Mason ~
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
~By Julian Casablancas ~
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
~By George Porter ~
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
~By Daphne du Maurier ~
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
~By George Sand ~
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~By Carl Jung ~
We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
~By Mary Gordon ~
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
~By Alexander Alekhine ~
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
~By Bob Brown ~
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
~By Eleanora Duse ~
The happiness of society is the end of government.
~By John Adams ~
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.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
~By Joan Rivers ~
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
~By Helen Keller ~
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
~By Michael Korda ~
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
~By Frank McCourt ~
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