| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Democritus | Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.  | 16 |
| Euripides | Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. | 28 |
| George Sand | There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. | 45 |
| George Orwell | Happiness can exist only in acceptance. | 73 |
| Susan B. Anthony | Independence is happiness. | 77 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. | 101 |
| Charles Spurgeon | It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. | 101 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. | 101 |
| Jim Rohn | Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. | 101 |
| Leo Tolstoy | If you want to be happy, be. | 101 |
| Taylor Swift | Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. | 101 |
| Thomas Merton | Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. | 101 |
| Albert Schweitzer | Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. | 101 |
| Agnes Martin | Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life. | 101 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. | 101 |
| Ashley Montagu | The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. | 101 |
| Ausonius | Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. | 101 |
| Bo Derek | Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. | 101 |
| Carrie Underwood | Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. | 101 |
| Clayton Christensen | The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. | 101 |
| Common | You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy. | 101 |
| Daniel Boone | All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. | 101 |
| Dita Von Teese | Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is! | 101 |
| Donatella Versace | Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine. | 101 |
| Elizabeth Olsen | I get way too much happiness from good food. | 101 |
| Fiona Shaw | Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. | 101 |
| Friedrich Schiller | Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. | 101 |
| George Burns | Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. | 101 |
| Gisele Bundchen | If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that. | 101 |
| Henry Knox | 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. | 101 |
| Ioan Gruffudd | As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus. | 101 |
| Izabella Scorupco | The most simple things can bring the most happiness. | 101 |
| James E. Faust | In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. | 101 |
| Joan Rivers | People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. | 101 |
| Jose Marti | Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. | 101 |
| Josephine Baker | God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers. | 101 |
| Kevyn Aucoin | 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. | 101 |
| Laura Schlessinger | Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. | 101 |
| Les Dawson | Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' | 101 |
| Linda Evans | I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming. | 101 |
| Linus Pauling | Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. | 101 |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. | 101 |
| Martha Washington | 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. | 101 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options. | 101 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. | 101 |
| Omar Khayyam | Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. | 101 |
| Patrick deWitt | I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage. | 101 |
| Sean Hannity | One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. | 101 |
| Theodore Isaac Rubin | 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. | 101 |
| Thomas S. Monson | Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. | 101 |
| Tom Wilson | A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. | 101 |
| V. S. Pritchett | The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. | 101 |
| Valerie Bertinelli | Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. | 101 |
| William Dean Howells | The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. | 101 |
| William E. Gladstone | Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. | 101 |
| William Morris | The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. | 101 |
| Yaya DaCosta | Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't. | 101 |
| Alastair Campbell | So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. | 101 |
| Charles Saatchi | My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit. | 101 |
| Dada Vaswani | Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. | 101 |
| Debra Messing | When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. | 101 |
| Dionne Warwick | Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. | 101 |
| Donny Osmond | The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride. | 101 |
| Eliza Doolittle | The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled. | 101 |
| Fanny Burney | Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. | 101 |
| Frank McCourt | Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. | 101 |
| George William Curtis | Happiness lies first of all in health. | 101 |
| Giraldus Cambrensis | Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. | 101 |
| Henry St. John | Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. | 101 |
| Horace Silver | Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles. | 101 |
| Horatio Alger | No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls. | 101 |
| John Lubbock | Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. | 101 |
| Karen Finerman | It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there. | 101 |
| Kathryn Minshew | Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. | 101 |
| Lynn Johnston | When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school. | 101 |
| Nana Mouskouri | I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. | 101 |
| Natascha McElhone | I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us. | 101 |
| Parker Palmer | I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. | 101 |
| Patrick Ness | Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine. | 101 |
| Sarah McLachlan | Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. | 101 |
| Brad Garrett | You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. | 101 |
| Chandra Wilson | Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life. | 101 |
| Charisma Carpenter | I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it. | 101 |
| Eugenio Montale | Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. | 101 |
| Frank Norris | The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. | 101 |
| Frederick Delius | There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating. | 101 |
| Gary Larson | The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. | 101 |
| Jay Parini | Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. | 101 |
| Jillian Michaels | We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make. | 101 |
| Karl Ove Knausgaard | When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. | 101 |
| Kay Hagan | The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren. | 101 |
| Luise Rainer | Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy. | 101 |
| Marie Kondo | The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment. | 101 |
| Nevil Shute | It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness. | 101 |
| Patrick Kavanagh | Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static. | 101 |
| Peabo Bryson | 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. | 101 |
| Polly Toynbee | 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. | 101 |
| Tablo | Happiness is very simple and minimal. | 101 |
| Tracy Kidder | You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. | 101 |
| Tsai Ing-wen | In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality. | 101 |
| Winifred Holtby | The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. | 101 |
| Adrian Grenier | It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. | 101 |
| Amber Riley | As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness. | 101 |
| Anita Baker | 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. | 101 |
| Anna Pavlova | The right to happiness is fundamental. | 101 |
| Anushka Sharma | There are two things that give me perfect happiness - doing the perfect shot and travelling. I get stressed, really stressed by the fact that there is just so much to see and I am not going to live long enough to visit all the places I want to. | 101 |
| Debbi Fields | I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience. | 101 |
| Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | 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. | 101 |
| Gabrielle Anwar | I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness. | 101 |
| Georges Bataille | Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. | 101 |
| Harold Kushner | Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. | 101 |
| John Barrymore | Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. | 101 |
| John Zorn | I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. | 101 |
| Lesley Ann Warren | Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness. | 101 |
| Thomas Bulfinch | For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. | 101 |
| Bobby Davro | The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind. | 101 |
| Daniel Gilbert | The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it. | 101 |
| David Sarnoff | Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. | 101 |
| Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin | Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how. | 101 |
| Ernesto Teodoro Moneta | The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be. | 101 |
| Jacques Prevert | Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. | 101 |
| James Smithson | 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. | 101 |
| Margaret Lee Runbeck | Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. | 101 |
| Michael A. Stackpole | Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. | 101 |
| Robert Herrick | 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. | 101 |
| Sharon Draper | Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. | 101 |
| Douglas Fairbanks | There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body. | 101 |
| Eustace Budgell | Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. | 101 |
| Joseph Roux | When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. | 101 |
| Louise Hart | Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. | 101 |
| Alice Meynell | Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. | 101 |
| Joyce Grenfell | There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. | 101 |
| Suzanne Weyn | Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace. | 101 |
| Alain Delon | I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. | 101 |
| Jared Harris | I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage. | 101 |
| John Mason Good | Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. | 101 |
| Jane Porter | Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. | 101 |
| Jean-Paul Marat | Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. | 101 |
| John Harrigan | Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. | 101 |
| Ayn Rand | Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. | 102 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. | 102 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. | 102 |
| Denis Waitley | Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. | 102 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. | 102 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. | 102 |
| Richard Bach | The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. | 102 |
| Annie Besant | The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind. | 102 |
| Bil Keane | A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. | 102 |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. | 102 |
| David Lee Roth | Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. | 102 |
| Derek Bok | Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness. | 102 |
| Diana Ross | My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. | 102 |
| Henry B. Eyring | The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord. | 102 |
| Logan Pearsall Smith | Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. | 102 |
| Lucinda Williams | People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. | 102 |
| Lynn Coady | No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness. | 102 |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. | 102 |
| Martha Washington | The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. | 102 |
| Park Geun-hye | We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed. | 102 |
| Sharon Jones | For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy. | 102 |
| Wilhelm von Humboldt | I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. | 102 |
| William Clay Ford, Jr. | I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation. | 102 |
| Win Butler | I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that. | 102 |
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko | Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. | 102 |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 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. | 102 |
| Charles Hazlewood | Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak. | 102 |
| David Brainerd | If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. | 102 |
| Guillaume Apollinaire | Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. | 102 |
| Helen McCrory | I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. | 102 |
| Henry Drummond | Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. | 102 |
| John W. Gardner | True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. | 102 |
| Richard Whately | Happiness is no laughing matter. | 102 |
| Ruth Reichl | The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. | 102 |
| Storm Jameson | Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. | 102 |
| Suge Knight | I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period. | 102 |
| William Lyon Phelps | If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. | 102 |
| Agnes Repplier | It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. | 102 |
| Christina Milian | I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. | 102 |
| Claire Forlani | There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it. | 102 |
| Dennis Christopher | I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life. | 102 |
| Francois Lelord | Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. | 102 |
| Frida Lyngstad | Money cannot buy happiness. | 102 |
| Jonathan Edwards | The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. | 102 |
| Leslie Caron | In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? | 102 |
| Norodom Sihamoni | I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering. | 102 |
| Percy Ross | You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. | 102 |
| Peter MacKay | I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia. | 102 |
| Polly Toynbee | 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. | 102 |
| Ric Ocasek | I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. | 102 |
| Rod Parsley | The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. | 102 |
| Shawn Achor | Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy. | 102 |
| William Beveridge | The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. | 102 |
| William Samuel Johnson | Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. | 102 |
| Bennett Miller | I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things. | 102 |
| Hugh Walpole | Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. | 102 |
| Jim Ryun | Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution 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. | 102 |
| Kelsang Gyatso | The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. | 102 |
| Kirsten Prout | I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt. | 102 |
| Lucy Davis | I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives. | 102 |
| Ring Lardner | The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do. | 102 |
| Sarah Vowell | While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | 102 |
| Tobey Maguire | 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. | 102 |
| Arnold Bennett | 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. | 102 |
| Bernard Meltzer | Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. | 102 |
| D. B. Weiss | Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being. | 102 |
| Elsa Schiaparelli | A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. | 102 |
| Letty Cottin Pogrebin | Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. | 102 |
| Arizona Muse | I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose. | 102 |
| Daphne du Maurier | Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. | 102 |
| John Gokongwei | Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness. | 102 |
| Michael Novak | Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. | 102 |
| Alfred de Musset | There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. | 102 |
| August Strindberg | Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. | 102 |
| David Wilmot | 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. | 102 |
| Rachel Field | Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. | 102 |
| Rosalia de Castro | Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. | 102 |
| Justin Long | If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery. | 102 |
| J. Donald Walters | Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. | 102 |
| John Gunther | All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. | 102 |
| Dalai Lama | Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. | 103 |
| 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. | 103 |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. | 103 |
| Brene Brown | I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. | 103 |
| Dante Alighieri | There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. | 103 |
| Dennis Prager | Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. | 103 |
| Jimmy Carter | For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. | 103 |
| Joel Osteen | Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. | 103 |
| Ann Voskamp | In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ. | 103 |
| Daniel Dennett | The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. | 103 |
| Desiderius Erasmus | It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. | 103 |
| Frederic Chopin | I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. | 103 |
| George Sand | 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. | 103 |
| Grover Norquist | Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty. | 103 |
| Henry Fielding | Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. | 103 |
| Herman Hesse | This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. | 103 |
| Ian K. Smith | I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness. | 103 |
| J. D. Salinger | I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. | 103 |
| Jamaica Kincaid | I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite. | 103 |
| Keke Palmer | Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time. | 103 |
| Martha Washington | I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. | 103 |
| Martin Seligman | The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. | 103 |
| Paul Sweeney | How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. | 103 |
| Phillips Brooks | Happiness is the natural flower of duty. | 103 |
| Saul Bellow | Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. | 103 |
| Steven Pinker | The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream. | 103 |
| Thucydides | The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. | 103 |
| Vanilla Ice | One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life. | 103 |
| William Feather | One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. | 103 |
| Zhuangzi | Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. | 103 |
| Zoe Saldana | Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. | 103 |
| Christie Brinkley | Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. | 103 |
| David O. McKay | Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. | 103 |
| Karisma Kapoor | There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life. | 103 |
| Leigh Hunt | The groundwork of all happiness is health. | 103 |
| Lucan | The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. | 103 |
| Maurice Sendak | Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. | 103 |
| Padmasree Warrior | I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community. | 103 |
| Rivers Cuomo | I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible. | 103 |
| Steve Kerr | 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. | 103 |
| Charles Van Doren | Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. | 103 |
| Christopher Hampton | To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? | 103 |
| Donna Rice | Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. | 103 |
| George A. Smith | 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. | 103 |
| Gilbert Murray | 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. | 103 |
| Henry James Sumner Maine | 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. | 103 |
| Polly Toynbee | 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. | 103 |
| Richard Cobden | But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half. | 103 |
| Scott Weiss | Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. | 103 |
| Tony Jaa | My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai. | 103 |
| Adam Clarke | Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. | 103 |
| Andy Grammer | Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. | 103 |
| Aron Ralston | Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you. | 103 |
| Colin Hay | Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well. | 103 |
| Gertrude Jekyll | 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. | 103 |
| Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin | The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. | 103 |
| Lawrence G. Lovasik | 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! | 103 |
| Richard Dreyfuss | Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should. | 103 |
| Bertha von Suttner | One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live. | 103 |
| Brenda Fassie | I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to. | 103 |
| Carrie Snow | The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. | 103 |
| John Mason Brown | The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. | 103 |
| Jose Bergamin | Happiness is always a coincidence. | 103 |
| Kim Barnouin | I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me! | 103 |
| Carlo Collodi | Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. | 103 |
| Curtis Mayfield | Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it. | 103 |
| Jamie Campbell Bower | People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment. | 103 |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte | By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite. | 103 |
| Jourdan Dunn | Happiness is making your dreams come true. | 103 |
| Merrill Markoe | Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness. | 103 |
| Meryl Davis | I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them. | 103 |
| Samuel Chase | Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. | 103 |
| Arthur Rubinstein | Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. | 103 |
| Joyce Grenfell | Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. | 103 |
| Julia Ward Howe | I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. | 103 |
| J. Donald Walters | Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. | 103 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. | 104 |
| Groucho Marx | I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. | 104 |
| John Dewey | To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. | 104 |
| Nicki Minaj | So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. | 104 |
| Adam Smith | Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. | 104 |
| Ben Jonson | True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. | 104 |
| David Lynch | Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. | 104 |
| Geoff Mulgan | Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button. | 104 |
| George Mason | Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss. | 104 |
| Herman Hesse | It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. | 104 |
| Kareena Kapoor Khan | Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith. | 104 |
| Maxwell Maltz | We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. | 104 |
| Nicole Kidman | When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. | 104 |
| Norman Lear | Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. | 104 |
| Pierre Corneille | Happiness seems made to be shared. | 104 |
| Stefan Sagmeister | To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. | 104 |
| Stephen Fry | But happiness is no respecter of persons. | 104 |
| Steve Gleason | I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice. | 104 |
| Zhuangzi | I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. | 104 |
| Alexandre Dumas | Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. | 104 |
| Andre Maurois | Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. | 104 |
| Bjorn Ulvaeus | There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city. | 104 |
| Booth Tarkington | So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. | 104 |
| Charles Sumner | No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. | 104 |
| Emily Oster | No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting. | 104 |
| Islom Karimov | Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness. | 104 |
| John Belushi | I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. | 104 |
| Karen Finerman | As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto. | 104 |
| Rita Mae Brown | One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. | 104 |
| Adam Davidson | Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut. | 104 |
| Alexander Payne | Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received. | 104 |
| Mary Lambert | It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken. | 104 |
| Maxim Gorky | 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. | 104 |
| Saina Nehwal | Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness. | 104 |
| Shawn Achor | Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success. | 104 |
| Shilpa Shetty | I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family. | 104 |
| George A. Sheehan | Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. | 104 |
| Joseph Franklin Rutherford | If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness. | 104 |
| Maurice Chevalier | If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. | 104 |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses. | 104 |
| Thomas Traherne | To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. | 104 |
| Bernard Meltzer | Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. | 104 |
| Leni Riefenstahl | The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world. | 104 |
| Morena Baccarin | Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness. | 104 |
| Andrei Platonov | Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. | 104 |
| Marguerite Duras | The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. | 104 |
| Susan Faludi | Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. | 104 |
| Jasper Carrott | Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy. | 104 |
| J. Donald Walters | Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. | 104 |
| Buddha | To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. | 105 |
| Thomas Jefferson | 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. | 105 |
| Albert Camus | 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. | 105 |
| Francois de La Rochefoucauld | In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. | 105 |
| Robert Baden-Powell | The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. | 105 |
| Al Green | The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness. | 105 |
| Alphonse Karr | 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. | 105 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. | 105 |
| Ben Hecht | What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's. | 105 |
| Conor Oberst | Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. | 105 |
| George Burns | 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. | 105 |
| Greg Anderson | Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. | 105 |
| Henry Van Dyke | Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. | 105 |
| Herbie Hancock | We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion. | 105 |
| Hugo Black | It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. | 105 |
| Irving Babbitt | Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. | 105 |
| Leon Kass | If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. | 105 |
| Martha Washington | The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. | 105 |
| Mary Oliver | We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. | 105 |
| Mitt Romney | Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people. | 105 |
| Ogden Nash | Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. | 105 |
| Oscar Levant | Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. | 105 |
| Pierre de Coubertin | The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. | 105 |
| Prem Rawat | Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. | 105 |
| Richard Eyre | I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself. | 105 |
| Richard Gere | People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does. | 105 |
| Thalia | I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy. | 105 |
| Tom Ford | I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't. | 105 |
| William Bennett | 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. | 105 |
| William Ellery Channing | How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. | 105 |
| William H. Seward | The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. | 105 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. | 105 |
| Adam Weishaupt | And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. | 105 |
| Barry Sanders | Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father. | 105 |
| F. H. Bradley | The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. | 105 |
| Hosea Ballou | 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. | 105 |
| Islom Karimov | I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland. | 105 |
| Lydia M. Child | An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. | 105 |
| Meir Kahane | Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable. | 105 |
| Seal | The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness. | 105 |
| Clara Schumann | My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. | 105 |
| Ernest Dimnet | The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. | 105 |
| Jeanne Calment | Every age has its happiness and troubles. | 105 |
| Jennifer Garner | My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. | 105 |
| Marie Osmond | Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. | 105 |
| Richie Sambora | You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money. | 105 |
| Robert Staughton Lynd | Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. | 105 |
| Shahid Kapoor | I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it. | 105 |
| Shawn Achor | Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness. | 105 |
| Anna Pavlova | Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. | 105 |
| Bob Brown | In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world. | 105 |
| Camille Claudel | I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year. | 105 |
| Marla Gibbs | In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love. | 105 |
| Tim Jackson | The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose. | 105 |
| Andrea Hirata | Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport. | 105 |
| Robert Trout | 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. | 105 |
| J. Donald Walters | The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. | 105 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. | 106 |
| Bertrand Russell | To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. | 106 |
| Dale Carnegie | Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. | 106 |
| Epictetus | There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. | 106 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 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. | 106 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | 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. | 106 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. | 106 |
| Herbert Hoover | Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness. | 106 |
| Wayne Gretzky | Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. | 106 |
| Chuck Palahniuk | The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. | 106 |
| Clare Boothe Luce | Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. | 106 |
| Clayton M. Christensen | The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. | 106 |
| Emanuel Swedenborg | 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. | 106 |
| Frederick William Faber | Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God. | 106 |
| Freya Stark | There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. | 106 |
| Giorgio Armani | I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness. | 106 |
| Gretchen Rubin | Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.' | 106 |
| James E. Faust | A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. | 106 |
| Johnny Carson | Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. | 106 |
| K. D. Lang | Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. | 106 |
| Katrina Kaif | I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness. | 106 |
| Kim Cattrall | I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky. | 106 |
| Louis D. Brandeis | Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. | 106 |
| Lupe Fiasco | That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness. | 106 |
| Malcolm Muggeridge | I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. | 106 |
| Sergey Brin | You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired. | 106 |
| Spike Milligan | Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. | 106 |
| Vivien Leigh | You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. | 106 |
| Wendell Willkie | History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. | 106 |
| Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation. | 106 |
| Islom Karimov | May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house. | 106 |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland | Joys divided are increased. | 106 |
| Julian Baggini | Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing. | 106 |
| Lafcadio Hearn | But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. | 106 |
| Maria Semple | There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without. | 106 |
| Mary Baker Eddy | Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. | 106 |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. | 106 |
| Ranbir Kapoor | Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with. | 106 |
| William Cobbett | Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. | 106 |
| Bill Vaughan | Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. | 106 |
| Charles Morgan | The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. | 106 |
| Martin Yan | Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful. | 106 |
| Anwar Sadat | There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. | 106 |
| Douglas William Jerrold | Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. | 106 |
| Marguerite Gardiner | Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. | 106 |
| Oscar Wilde | Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. | 107 |
| Frederick Douglass | The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. | 107 |
| Chanakya | Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. | 107 |
| Robert A. Heinlein | Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. | 107 |
| Swami Sivananda | There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. | 107 |
| Caitlyn Jenner | Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness. | 107 |
| Denzel Washington | My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. | 107 |
| Elvis Costello | Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. | 107 |
| Franz Schubert | You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. | 107 |
| Frederic Chopin | Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long? | 107 |
| Frederick William Faber | Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain! | 107 |
| Garth Brooks | Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got. | 107 |
| Guy Finley | Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. | 107 |
| Herbie Hancock | It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness. | 107 |
| Ingrid Bergman | Happiness is good health and a bad memory. | 107 |
| Kylie Jenner | I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always. | 107 |
| Leonard Boswell | Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. | 107 |
| Lilly Singh | Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life. | 107 |
| Mario Batali | Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. | 107 |
| Mel Gibson | Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same. | 107 |
| Paul Bloom | Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. | 107 |
| Richard Simmons | No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace. | 107 |
| Sandra Bullock | I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.' | 107 |
| Stefan Sagmeister | U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution. | 107 |
| Sydney J. Harris | Happiness is a direction, not a place. | 107 |
| Taraji P. Henson | It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you. | 107 |
| Thor Heyerdahl | It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. | 107 |
| Tony Hawk | You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous. | 107 |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. | 107 |
| Maurice Sendak | I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. | 107 |
| Paula Cole | I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. | 107 |
| Stefano Gabbana | To me, flowers are happiness. | 107 |
| John Stossel | Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. | 107 |
| Jon Huntsman, Jr. | People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal. | 107 |
| Maria Mitchell | There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. | 107 |
| Sydney Smith | Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. | 107 |
| Anna Pavlova | When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. | 107 |
| Sylvia Kristel | I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty. | 107 |
| Robert Burton | 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. | 107 |
| Russell M. Nelson | Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. | 107 |
| John Grierson | 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. | 107 |
| Benjamin Franklin | 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. | 108 |
| William Butler Yeats | Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. | 108 |
| Albert Schweitzer | Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. | 108 |
| Richard Bach | Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. | 108 |
| Alphonse Karr | Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. | 108 |
| Bertolt Brecht | Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. | 108 |
| Clara Barton | An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. | 108 |
| Coretta Scott King | 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. | 108 |
| Dolley Madison | It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. | 108 |
| Ernie Banks | You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. | 108 |
| Estelle | No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup. | 108 |
| Gustave Flaubert | One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. | 108 |
| Julia Roberts | You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. | 108 |
| Karen Salmansohn | Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness. | 108 |
| Martin Seligman | I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. | 108 |
| Maxwell Maltz | We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. | 108 |
| Mel Gibson | The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky. | 108 |
| Nhat Hanh | We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome. | 108 |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! | 108 |
| Omar Bongo | The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. | 108 |
| Paramahansa Yogananda | The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. | 108 |
| Red Skelton | Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. | 108 |
| Robert Green Ingersoll | Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. | 108 |
| Robert Mapplethorpe | Happiness? No, it's not there for me. | 108 |
| Shah Rukh Khan | You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy. | 108 |
| Sheryl Sandberg | It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. | 108 |
| William Ralph Inge | The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. | 108 |
| Dada Vaswani | True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment. | 108 |
| Francois Fenelon | 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. | 108 |
| Hedi Slimane | Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness. | 108 |
| Hosea Ballou | Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. | 108 |
| J. B. Priestley | To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. | 108 |
| Leo Rosten | Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. | 108 |
| Matthew Arnold | To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. | 108 |
| Niger Innis | When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery. | 108 |
| Shreya Ghoshal | An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences. | 108 |
| Dale Archer | You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are. | 108 |
| Immanuel Kant | Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. | 109 |
| John Stuart Mill | I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. | 109 |
| Christopher McCandless | Happiness is only real when shared. | 109 |
| Maria Montessori | One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. | 109 |
| Andy Rooney | Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. | 109 |
| Elizabeth Wurtzel | I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it. | 109 |
| Henri Matisse | Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. | 109 |
| Liberty Hyde Bailey | One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels. | 109 |
| Louis D. Brandeis | Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization. | 109 |
| Norman Douglas | Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. | 109 |
| Pierre Corneille | We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. | 109 |
| Red Skelton | God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being. | 109 |
| Tullian Tchividjian | The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be. | 109 |
| Walter Savage Landor | We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. | 109 |
| William Feather | Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. | 109 |
| William Wilberforce | It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power. | 109 |
| Henry Drummond | There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. | 109 |
| Howard Hughes | Money can't buy happiness. | 109 |
| Janet Jackson | I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable. | 109 |
| Maeve Binchy | Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself. | 109 |
| Tryon Edwards | 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. | 109 |
| Alana Stewart | Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress. | 109 |
| Bharati Mukherjee | As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive. | 109 |
| Cherie Lunghi | I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.' | 109 |
| James F. Cooper | 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. | 109 |
| James Stephens | Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness. | 109 |
| Buddha | 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. | 110 |
| Ai Weiwei | This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people. | 110 |
| Barbara De Angelis | 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. | 110 |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. | 110 |
| Heraclitus | Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. | 110 |
| Herman Hesse | To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. | 110 |
| Iggy Azalea | I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary. | 110 |
| Jacques Yves Cousteau | The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. | 110 |
| Joni Mitchell | I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? | 110 |
| Joseph Addison | Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. | 110 |
| Max Planck | 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. | 110 |
| Muhammad Yunus | Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. | 110 |
| Pharrell Williams | It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything. | 110 |
| Quentin Crisp | The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. | 110 |
| Rollo May | Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. | 110 |
| William Law | 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. | 110 |
| Austin O'Malley | Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. | 110 |
| Dan Savage | I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. | 110 |
| Philip Sidney | It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. | 110 |
| Sidney Sheldon | 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. | 110 |
| Joseph Butler | Happiness does not consist in self-love. | 110 |
| Aristotle | Happiness depends upon ourselves. | 111 |
| C. S. Lewis | Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. | 111 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. | 111 |
| Immanuel Kant | It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. | 111 |
| Aeschylus | Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. | 111 |
| Arthur Ashe | When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. | 111 |
| Edward Gibbon | I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. | 111 |
| Guru Nanak | Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. | 111 |
| Liberty Hyde Bailey | There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. | 111 |
| Madame de Stael | The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action. | 111 |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. | 111 |
| Malcolm Muggeridge | The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. | 111 |
| Nick Cave | Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. | 111 |
| Patricia Heaton | 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. | 111 |
| Thomas Moore | It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. | 111 |
| Tina Turner | My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret. | 111 |
| Tom Wilson | Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have. | 111 |
| William E. Gladstone | 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. | 111 |
| William J. H. Boetcker | True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. | 111 |
| Siri Hustvedt | All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. | 111 |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. | 111 |
| Joseph Franklin Rutherford | Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. | 111 |
| Mary Wortley Montagu | 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. | 111 |
| Benjamin Franklin | The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. | 112 |
| Helen Keller | Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. | 112 |
| Albert Camus | But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? | 112 |
| Dale Carnegie | 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. | 112 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. | 112 |
| Taylor Swift | I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. | 112 |
| Freddie Mercury | Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! | 112 |
| Adam Smith | What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? | 112 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. | 112 |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupery | It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. | 112 |
| Jane Austen | A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. | 112 |
| Abu Bakr | He who avoids complaint invites happiness. | 112 |
| Benjamin Spock | Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. | 112 |
| Daisaku Ikeda | Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. | 112 |
| Gretchen Rubin | For quotes, I have one document for general quotes; the other for happiness-related quotes, which I use for the 'Moment of Happiness,' my daily emails of happiness quotes. | 112 |
| Guy Laliberte | Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. | 112 |
| Louis D. Brandeis | America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. | 112 |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. | 112 |
| Miguel de Unamuno | 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. | 112 |
| Victoria Woodhull | I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. | 112 |
| Vincent Nichols | The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness. | 112 |
| Andre Maurois | The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. | 112 |
| Brandon Boyd | I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. | 112 |
| Peter McWilliams | 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. | 112 |
| Rick Pitino | I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little. | 112 |
| Amy Lowell | Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. | 112 |
| Joseph Roux | The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. | 112 |
| Dalai Lama | If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. | 113 |
| Aldous Huxley | Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. | 113 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. | 113 |
| Nicki Minaj | My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. | 113 |
| Anne Morrow Lindbergh | For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. | 113 |
| Anthony Hopkins | Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. | 113 |
| Bryant H. McGill | Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. | 113 |
| Chuck Norris | People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. | 113 |
| Evita Peron | If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. | 113 |
| Gretchen Rubin | In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. | 113 |
| James K. Polk | Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. | 113 |
| John Burroughs | The secret of happiness is something to do. | 113 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! | 113 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. | 113 |
| Ramana Maharshi | One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness. | 113 |
| Red Skelton | Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. | 113 |
| Michele Bachmann | Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there's guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people. | 113 |
| Joseph Butler | Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. | 113 |
| Sydney Smith | A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. | 113 |
| Joseph Wood Krutch | Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. | 113 |
| C. S. Lewis | You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. | 114 |
| Aldous Huxley | God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. | 114 |
| Baruch Spinoza | All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. | 114 |
| Norman Vincent Peale | Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. | 114 |
| Robert Frost | Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. | 114 |
| Iris Murdoch | Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. | 114 |
| P. T. Barnum | The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick. | 114 |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupery | True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. | 114 |
| Richard Bach | If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. | 114 |
| Denis Diderot | There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. | 114 |
| Henry B. Eyring | The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves. | 114 |
| Hugh Laurie | People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it. | 114 |
| Jeremy Bentham | The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. | 114 |
| Julia Roberts | Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. | 114 |
| Khaled Hosseini | My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters. | 114 |
| Nhat Hanh | Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. | 114 |
| Ogden Nash | 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. | 114 |
| Quentin Crisp | 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. | 114 |
| Robert Green Ingersoll | Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. | 114 |
| Tom Ford | I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today. | 114 |
| Andrew Weil | Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. | 114 |
| Helen Keller | Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. | 115 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. | 115 |
| Langston Hughes | Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. | 115 |
| Marcel Proust | Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. | 115 |
| Carrie Underwood | I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. | 115 |
| David A. Bednar | Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration. | 115 |
| Douglas Horton | Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. | 115 |
| Ginger Rogers | The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift. | 115 |
| Gretchen Rubin | Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too. | 115 |
| James Allen | 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. | 115 |
| Jeremy Bentham | The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. | 115 |
| Leona Lewis | For me, love is happiness and inspiration. | 115 |
| Malcolm Forbes | When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. | 115 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 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. | 115 |
| Pearl S. Buck | Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. | 115 |
| Queen Victoria | I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. | 115 |
| Rush Limbaugh | 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. | 115 |
| Thomas Huxley | The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. | 115 |
| Thomas Szasz | Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. | 115 |
| Tom Waits | We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. | 115 |
| Victoria Woodhull | I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | 115 |
| Wilbur Smith | I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best. | 115 |
| Pratibha Patil | I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth. | 115 |
| Joseph Butler | 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. | 115 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy. | 116 |
| Victor Hugo | Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. | 116 |
| Viktor E. Frankl | To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' | 116 |
| Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. | 116 |
| Bob Hope | 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. | 116 |
| George Sand | Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. | 116 |
| Jada Pinkett Smith | You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness. | 116 |
| Laura Schlessinger | One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home. | 116 |
| Michael J. Fox | My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. | 116 |
| W. Somerset Maugham | It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. | 116 |
| Robert Baden-Powell | Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp. | 117 |
| Gretchen Rubin | We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends. | 117 |
| Horatio Nelson | 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. | 117 |
| John Mayer | You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. | 117 |
| Lysander Spooner | Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. | 117 |
| Milan Kundera | The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. | 117 |
| Richard Gere | The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion. | 117 |
| Ted Nugent | I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness. | 117 |
| Amy Chua | Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line? | 117 |
| W. H. Auden | In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. | 118 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. | 118 |
| Al Sharpton | There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people. | 118 |
| Beth Ditto | Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace. | 118 |
| Don Marquis | Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. | 118 |
| Graham Greene | No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. | 118 |
| Henry Van Dyke | To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. | 118 |
| Ovid | Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. | 118 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. | 118 |
| Shawn Johnson | My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart. | 118 |
| Tyler Perry | Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me. | 118 |
| Charles de Montesquieu | 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. | 119 |
| Swami Sivananda | Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. | 119 |
| Bette Davis | A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. | 119 |
| Daniel Kahneman | Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time. | 119 |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. | 119 |
| John Burroughs | 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. | 119 |
| Jose Marti | There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. | 119 |
| Orhan Pamuk | When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end. | 119 |
| Sam Levenson | Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. | 119 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 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. | 119 |
| C. S. Lewis | Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? | 120 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. | 120 |
| Leo Tolstoy | Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. | 120 |
| Thomas Merton | When ambition ends, happiness begins. | 120 |
| Bryant H. McGill | 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. | 120 |
| Carl Sandburg | The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. | 120 |
| Emma Thompson | We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. | 120 |
| James Allen | Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. | 120 |
| Jules Verne | With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. | 120 |
| Richard Rohr | When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again. | 120 |
| Joyce Carol Oates | When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. | 120 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. | 121 |
| Bertrand Russell | 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. | 121 |
| Beyonce Knowles | Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice. | 121 |
| John Dewey | 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. | 121 |
| William Arthur Ward | Happiness is an inside job. | 121 |
| Andre Gide | Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. | 121 |
| D. H. Lawrence | 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. | 121 |
| Anne Lamott | My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. | 121 |
| David Letterman | I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves. | 121 |
| George Foreman | It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later. | 121 |
| Gustave Flaubert | To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. | 121 |
| Havelock Ellis | 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. | 121 |
| Lana Del Rey | I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world. | 121 |
| Marquis de Sade | Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. | 121 |
| Nhat Hanh | We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness. | 121 |
| Plutarch | Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. | 121 |
| Michael Franti | I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see. | 121 |
| Srikumar Rao | There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness. | 121 |
| Princess Diana | 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. | 122 |
| Joel Osteen | You can be happy where you are. | 122 |
| Daniel Kahneman | Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life. | 122 |
| David Duchovny | I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. | 122 |
| Giacomo Casanova | 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. | 122 |
| Gretchen Rubin | If I can do something in less than one minute, I don't let myself procrastinate. I hang up my coat, put newspapers in the recycling, scan and toss a letter. Ever since I wrote about this rule in 'The Happiness Project,' I've been amazed by how many people have told me that it has made a huge difference in their lives. | 122 |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment. | 122 |
| William Cowper | Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. | 122 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. | 123 |
| Mother Teresa | Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. | 123 |
| Henry Ford | Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. | 123 |
| John Stuart Mill | Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. | 123 |
| Pablo Picasso | 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. | 123 |
| Marcel Proust | Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. | 123 |
| Anatole France | Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. | 123 |
| David A. Bednar | Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. | 123 |
| Horace | You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. | 123 |
| Marina Abramovic | Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being. | 123 |
| Paul Ryan | We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. | 123 |
| Robert Green Ingersoll | A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. | 123 |
| William Hazlitt | Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! | 123 |
| Lord Byron | All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. | 124 |
| Thomas Paine | It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. | 124 |
| John Adams | The happiness of society is the end of government. | 124 |
| Tom Stoppard | It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. | 124 |
| Baltasar Gracian | Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. | 124 |
| Clayton Christensen | Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek. | 124 |
| Daniel Kahneman | It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness. | 124 |
| David Lynch | The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. | 124 |
| Joseph Addison | A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. | 124 |
| Marianne Williamson | For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness. | 124 |
| Marlee Matlin | I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness. | 124 |
| Martha Beck | Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. | 124 |
| Doug Larson | The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. | 124 |
| Albert Camus | Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. | 125 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. | 125 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. | 125 |
| Leo Tolstoy | One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. | 125 |
| Anton Chekhov | Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. | 125 |
| Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. | 125 |
| Milan Kundera | Happiness is the longing for repetition. | 125 |
| Stendhal | Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. | 125 |
| Aimee Mullins | Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. | 125 |
| Blaise Pascal | Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. | 126 |
| Epictetus | If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. | 126 |
| Ernest Hemingway | Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. | 126 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. | 126 |
| George Santayana | A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. | 126 |
| Peter Drucker | Never mind your happiness; do your duty. | 126 |
| John Ruskin | Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. | 126 |
| Douglas Coupland | Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. | 126 |
| Douglas Horton | To buy happiness is to sell soul. | 126 |
| Marquis de Sade | Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. | 126 |
| Ogden Nash | The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. | 126 |
| Pete Rose | There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. | 126 |
| Tom Hodgkinson | Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve. | 126 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. | 126 |
| Willa Cather | That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. | 126 |
| Ellen DeGeneres | The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. | 201 |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it. | 201 |
| Shah Rukh Khan | Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness. | 201 |
| Marcus Aurelius | 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. | 202 |
| George Orwell | Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. | 202 |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. | 202 |
| Ben Carson | There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. | 202 |
| Richard Bach | Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. | 202 |
| Alanis Morissette | We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. | 202 |
| Henri Frederic Amiel | Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. | 202 |
| Joseph Addison | Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. | 202 |
| Mortimer Adler | 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. | 202 |
| Stendhal | To describe happiness is to diminish it. | 202 |
| Suze Orman | When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. | 202 |
| William S. Burroughs | Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. | 202 |
| John Dryden | Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. | 202 |
| Dale Carnegie | Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. | 203 |
| Soren Kierkegaard | A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. | 203 |
| Dag Hammarskjold | 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. | 203 |
| Hugh Laurie | 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. | 203 |
| Queen Latifah | I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields. | 203 |
| Sam Harris | Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality. | 203 |
| William Ellery Channing | The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. | 203 |
| William Feather | Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. | 203 |
| Confucius | They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. | 204 |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete. | 204 |
| Chanakya | There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. | 204 |
| Honore de Balzac | A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. | 204 |
| Yoko Ono | I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. | 204 |
| Dalai Lama | 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. | 205 |
| Drew Barrymore | I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup. | 205 |
| Herman Hesse | Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. | 205 |
| Josh Billings | If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. | 205 |
| Stendhal | A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. | 205 |
| Julian Casablancas | Desire is individual. Happiness is common. | 205 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. | 206 |
| George Bernard Shaw | We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. | 206 |
| Leo Buscaglia | What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. | 206 |
| Emile M. Cioran | Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. | 206 |
| Joseph Addison | True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. | 206 |
| Helen Keller | 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. | 207 |
| Charlie Chaplin | 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. | 207 |
| Immanuel Kant | Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. | 207 |
| Denis Waitley | It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. | 207 |
| Sophocles | Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. | 207 |
| Chris Evans | I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind. | 207 |
| Josh Billings | A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. | 207 |
| Kin Hubbard | It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. | 207 |
| Michael Leunig | Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing. | 207 |
| Thomas Jefferson | It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. | 208 |
| Baruch Spinoza | Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. | 208 |
| Alice Walker | In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. | 208 |
| Marina Abramovic | Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform. | 208 |
| C. S. Lewis | God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. | 209 |
| Edmund Burke | Beauty is the promise of happiness. | 209 |
| H. P. Lovecraft | All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. | 209 |
| Chanakya | The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. | 209 |
| Samuel Johnson | 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. | 209 |
| Mary J. Blige | When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply. | 209 |
| Suze Orman | A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. | 209 |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people. | 210 |
| James Madison | To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. | 210 |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel. | 210 |
| Jill Scott | At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness. | 210 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. | 211 |
| Jane Austen | Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. | 211 |
| George Washington | There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. | 212 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. | 212 |
| Eckhart Tolle | People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. | 212 |
| George Eliot | Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. | 212 |
| Karl Marx | The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. | 212 |
| Saint Augustine | Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. | 212 |
| Charles Baudelaire | There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. | 212 |
| Charles Caleb Colton | There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. | 212 |
| Chris Evans | I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. | 212 |
| Martin Scorsese | When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. | 212 |
| William S. Burroughs | Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. | 212 |
| Bertrand Russell | The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. | 213 |
| Blaise Pascal | Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. | 213 |
| Dale Carnegie | Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. | 213 |
| Henry Ford | There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. | 213 |
| Chris Evans | What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment. | 213 |
| Kanye West | I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. | 214 |
| Ayn Rand | Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. | 214 |
| Bertrand Russell | A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. | 214 |
| Henry B. Eyring | It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter. | 214 |
| Bertrand Russell | Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. | 215 |
| Nicki Minaj | I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. | 215 |
| Sigmund Freud | Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. | 215 |
| Euripides | Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. | 215 |
| James E. Faust | In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul. | 215 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately. | 215 |
| Thomas Carlyle | 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. | 215 |
| Billy Graham | God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there. | 216 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. | 216 |
| Helen Keller | True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. | 217 |
| Orison Swett Marden | One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency. | 217 |
| Plato | 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. | 218 |
| Napoleon Hill | 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. | 218 |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more. | 218 |
| Virginia Woolf | 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. | 218 |
| Alice Walker | Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. | 218 |
| Charles Spurgeon | A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. | 219 |
| Elie Wiesel | I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. | 219 |
| George Santayana | Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. | 219 |
| John Stuart Mill | Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. | 219 |
| William James | Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. | 219 |
| Aeschylus | 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. | 219 |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. | 220 |
| Thomas Aquinas | Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. | 220 |
| Euripides | Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. | 220 |
| Audrey Hepburn | I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. | 222 |
| Epictetus | The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. | 222 |
| Samuel Johnson | Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. | 222 |
| Dalai Lama | More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. | 223 |
| Ernest Hemingway | The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. | 223 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. | 223 |
| Euripides | There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. | 223 |
| Sophocles | Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. | 223 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter. | 223 |
| Francis Bacon | 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. | 225 |
| William Blake | 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. | 225 |
| Jennifer Aniston | You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. | 225 |
| George Washington | Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. | 226 |
| Bertrand Russell | Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. | 226 |
| Franz Kafka | In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. | 301 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. | 301 |
| John C. Maxwell | Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. | 301 |
| Dale Carnegie | The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . | 301 |
| Elbert Hubbard | The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. | 301 |
| Samuel Johnson | 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. | 302 |
| Ellen G. White | It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them. | 302 |
| Paulo Coelho | I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. | 304 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. | 304 |
| Sigmund Freud | What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. | 305 |
| Henry David Thoreau | There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. | 306 |
| Khalil Gibran | Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. | 306 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation. | 307 |
| James Madison | A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. | 307 |
| Helen Keller | No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. | 308 |
| Victor Hugo | The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. | 308 |
| Helen Keller | No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. | 309 |
| Mason Cooley | Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness. | 309 |
| Sophocles | When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. | 310 |
| Nelson Mandela | 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. | 311 |
| Alexander Pope | Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. | 311 |
| Bertrand Russell | The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. | 313 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. | 313 |
| Paulo Coelho | I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing. | 313 |
| Honore de Balzac | We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. | 313 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | To forget oneself is to be happy. | 314 |
| Aldous Huxley | There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. | 317 |
| Bertrand Russell | Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. | 317 |
| Deepak Chopra | Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy. | 320 |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | 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. | 321 |
| Napoleon Hill | Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. | 321 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well. | 321 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. | 324 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. | 324 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. | 401 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies. | 402 |
| Chuck Palahniuk | Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? | 403 |
| Victor Hugo | To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. | 405 |
| Vladimir Putin | I think happiness is love. | 405 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity. | 405 |
| Plato | Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. | 408 |
| Deepak Chopra | Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. | 408 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. | 409 |
| Samuel Johnson | 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. | 411 |
| Albert Camus | Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. | 412 |
| Khalil Gibran | Love is trembling happiness. | 413 |
| Samuel Johnson | There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. | 413 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. | 417 |
| Victor Hugo | Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. | 419 |
| Aristotle | 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. | 421 |
| Bertrand Russell | 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 a paradise in a few years. | 424 |
| Albert Einstein | A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? | 504 |
| Bertrand Russell | Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. | 506 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. | 507 |
| Henry David Thoreau | The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. | 513 |
| George Bernard Shaw | It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. | 514 |
| Aristotle | Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. | 517 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. | 526 |
| Mark Twain | There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. | 708 |
| Benjamin Franklin | The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. | 712 |
| William Shakespeare | But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. | 719 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. | 723 |
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