When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
~By Norodom Sihamoni ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Theodore Isaac Rubin ~
I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.
~By Steve Kerr ~
Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.
~By Chris Bailey ~
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
~By Marcel Proust ~
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 ~
The will of man is his happiness.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
~By Don Herold ~
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.
~By John Dewey ~
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.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
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.
~By Aeschylus ~
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
~By Plato ~
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
~By Terri Apter ~
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
~By Horatio Alger ~
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~By Helen Keller ~
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
~By George Orwell ~
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
~By Linus Pauling ~
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
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 ~
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
~By F. H. Bradley ~
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 ~
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
~By Joseph Barbara ~
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.
~By Michael Landon ~
I don't know the true meaning of happiness.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
~By Mary Wortley ~
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 ~
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
~By Mary MacLane ~
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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.
~By James Allen ~
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
~By Monica Edwards ~
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
~By Euripides ~
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.
~By William James ~
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.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
~By Ogden Nash ~
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
~By Albert Camus ~
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
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.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
~By Johnny Carson ~
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
~By David Brainerd ~
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.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
~By William Bennett ~
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.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
~By Clayton Christensen ~
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
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.
~By Max Planck ~
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 our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
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 ~
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 ~
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
~By Lord Byron ~
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
~By Milan Kundera ~
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
~By Freddie Mercury ~
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
~By Heraclitus ~
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
~By John Dryden ~
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.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
~By Anita Baker ~
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 ~
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
~By William Beveridge ~
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
~By Clara Schumann ~
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
~By Olympia Brown ~
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
~By Hugh Laurie ~
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
~By Joyce Grenfell ~
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
~By Epictetus ~
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
~By Dale Carnegie ~
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
~By John Woolman ~
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.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
~By Aron Ralston ~
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.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
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