Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
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 ~
I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
~By Pierre Salinger ~
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.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
~By William Burroughs ~
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
~By Sivananda ~
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
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.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Happiness seems made to be shared.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.
~By Islom Karimov ~
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 ~
There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
~By Pete Rose ~
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
~By Abu Bakr ~
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 ~
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 ~
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
~By James Madison ~
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 ~
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
~By George Porter ~
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
~By Mary Baker Eddy ~
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 ~
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
~By James Thurber ~
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
~By Thomas Merton ~
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
~By George Santayana ~
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
~By Isabelle Eberhardt ~
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 ~
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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.
~By Ogden Nash ~
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 ~
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Happiness is an inside job.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
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.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
~By Bo Derek ~
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 ~
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
~By Don Marquis ~
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
~By Martha Washington ~
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 ~
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.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
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 ~
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
~By Joseph Roux ~
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
~By Albert Camus ~
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
~By Ted Nugent ~
I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
~By Norodom Sihamoni ~
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 ~
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 crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
~By Winifred Holtby ~
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 ~
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.
~By Princess Diana ~
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
~By David O. McKay ~
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
~By Helen Keller ~
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
~By Robert Burton ~
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
~By Storm Jameson ~
I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
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.
~By Aristotle ~
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
~By William Cowper ~
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
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 ~
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.
~By 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.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
~By Euripides ~
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
~By James Freeman Clarke ~
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
~By Aristotle ~
Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
~By Antonio Gala ~
It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
~By Barry Took ~
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
~By James F. Cooper ~
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 ~
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
~By Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
~By Julie Christie ~
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
~By Martha Washington ~
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
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 ~
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.
~By William Blake ~
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
~By Aeschylus ~
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
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 ~
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
~By Zhuangzi ~
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
~By George Sand ~
I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.
~By Gisele Bundchen ~
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
~By Clara Schumann ~
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