I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
~By John Burroughs ~
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
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 ~
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
~By James Freeman Clarke ~
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
~By Henry Ellis ~
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
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.
~By Plato ~
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
~By Dan Savage ~
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
~By Frank Norris ~
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
~By Stendhal ~
I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
~By Ethan Suplee ~
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
~By Anna Pavlova ~
The secret of happiness is something to do.
~By John Burroughs ~
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
~By Susan Faludi ~
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
~By Claire Forlani ~
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
~By Georges Bataille ~
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.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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.
~By Bob Hope ~
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.
~By George Burns ~
Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.
~By Harry Lauder ~
Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.
~By James Van Der Zee ~
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
~By Arthur Helps ~
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
~By Eddie Albert ~
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
~By Letty Cottin Pogrebin ~
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
~By Rick Derringer ~
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
The day of individual happiness has passed.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
~By William Hall ~
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.
~By Josh Lucas ~
Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
~By Joseph Barbara ~
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
~By Johnny Carson ~
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
~By Joyce Grenfell ~
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
~By Willie Nelson ~
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
~By Joseph Butler ~
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 ~
A good education is another name for happiness.
~By Ann Plato ~
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
~By John Dewey ~
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
~By Alain Delon ~
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
~By William Samuel Johnson ~
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
~By Fiona Shaw ~
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
~By Islom Karimov ~
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~By Carl Jung ~
What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?
~By Richard Owen Cambridge ~
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
~By William Law ~
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
~By Anatole France ~
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 ~
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
~By Stendhal ~
I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
~By Amy Adams ~
Happiness lies first of all in health.
~By George William Curtis ~
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
~By Monica Edwards ~
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
~By Mary Wortley ~
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
~By Oswald Chambers ~
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
~By Albert Camus ~
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
~By Victor Hugo ~
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
~By James Thomson ~
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
~By Isabelle Eberhardt ~
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
~By William Shenstone ~
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 ~
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.
~By Cofer Black ~
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
~By Ted Nugent ~
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
~By Adam Smith ~
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
~By Abu Bakr ~
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.
~By Albert Camus ~
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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 ~
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
~By Robert Trout ~
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 ~
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
~By George Santayana ~
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
~By Freya Stark ~
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