- 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.
- Miguel De Unamuno on Happiness
- 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.
- Henry David Thoreau on Happiness
- There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
- Alfred De Musset on Happiness
- 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.
- Mary Wortley on Happiness
- There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
- Nelson Mandela on Happiness
- There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
- Samuel Johnson on Happiness
- 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.
- Samuel Johnson on Happiness
- There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
- George Sand on Happiness
- There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
- Denis Diderot on Happiness
- There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
- Frederick Delius on Happiness
- 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.
- Ogden Nash on Happiness
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
- Aldous Huxley on Happiness
- There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
- 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.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Happiness
- There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
- John Buchan on Happiness
- There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
- Fiona Shaw on Happiness
- There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
- Claire Forlani on Happiness
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- 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.
- Herman Hesse on Happiness
- This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
- Michael Korda on Happiness
- This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
- Clayton Christensen on Happiness
- 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.
- Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
- Azar Nafisi on Happiness
- Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
- Holbrook Jackson on Happiness
- 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.
- Louis D. Brandeis on Happiness
- 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.
- Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison on Happiness
- Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
- William Cowper on Happiness
- Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
- Isaac D'Israeli on Happiness
- To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Happiness
- 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.
- Hermann Hesse on Happiness
- To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Happiness
- To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
- Victor Hugo on Happiness
- To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
- Gustave Flaubert on Happiness
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Bertrand Russell on Happiness
- To buy happiness is to sell soul.
- Douglas Horton on Happiness
- To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
- Charles Inglis on Happiness
- To describe happiness is to diminish it.
- 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.
- Henry Van Dyke on Happiness
- 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.
- To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey on Happiness
- To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
- Matthew Arnold on Happiness
- To me, flowers are happiness.
- Stefano Gabbana on Happiness
- To me, the most important thing is happiness.
- Sheryl Swoopes on Happiness
- To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
- Christina Ricci on Happiness
- To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
- Christopher Hampton on Happiness
- To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
- J. B. Priestley on Happiness
- To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- James Madison on Happiness
- 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.
- Thomas Traherne on Happiness
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