Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
~By Joseph Barbara ~
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
~By George Santayana ~
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.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
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.
~By George Sand ~
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
~By Oswald Chambers ~
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
~By Billy Graham ~
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
~By Ausonius ~
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
~By Aron Ralston ~
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
~By Gary Larson ~
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 ~
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
~By James Smithson ~
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
~By Neil Simon ~
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
~By Ric Ocasek ~
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
~By Margaret Cho ~
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.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
~By Fiona Shaw ~
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
~By Logan P. Smith ~
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
~By John Mason Brown ~
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 ~
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
~By Taylor Swift ~
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
~By Arthur Helps ~
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
~By Martha Washington ~
I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.
~By Paul Thomas Anderson ~
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 ~
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, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
~By George A. Smith ~
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
~By George Santayana ~
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
~By Monica Edwards ~
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 ~
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
~By Aristotle ~
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
~By Doug Larson ~
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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 ~
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
~By Bernard Meltzer ~
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
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 ~
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
~By Jim Rohn ~
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
~By George Eliot ~
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
~By Maxim Gorky ~
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
~By John Grierson ~
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 ~
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
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 ~
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
~By Henry Ford ~
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
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 ~
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 ~
Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.
~By Dyan Cannon ~
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
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 ~
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
~By Democritus ~
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
~By Charles Van Doren ~
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
~By David Brainerd ~
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
~By Ernie Banks ~
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
~By Vittorio Alfieri ~
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 ~
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
~By William Shakespeare ~
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
~By Henry Knox ~
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
~By Sivananda ~
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 ~
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
~By Jean-Paul Marat ~
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
~By Euripedes ~
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 ~
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
~By Orson Pratt ~
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
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 ~
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
~By Richard Bach ~
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
~By Don Marquis ~
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.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
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.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
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