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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker
Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.
Mary Engelbreit
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
Henny Youngman
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton Thucydides
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
George Washington Eleanor Roosevelt Ernest Hemingway
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Sarah McLachlan
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Douglas Horton
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli
Mahatma Gandhi
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Arthur Schopenhauer
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have Richard Bach a problem.
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to Bill Vaughan study the problem.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and Khalil Gibran share with the people the same happiness.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James Madison
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes Billy Graham my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.
Michael J. Fox
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.
~Anonymous
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
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.
George Burns
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.
Charlie Chaplin
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have Bertrand Russell a paradise in a few years.
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.
Marcus Aurelius
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.
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.
Thomas Jefferson
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted Fyodor them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness Dostoevsky provided for it.
Helen Keller
Francis Bacon
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 Dale Carnegie thought could never be yours.
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
Nelson Mandela
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
Bo Bennett
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.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable Bertrand Russell 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.
Princess Diana
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