- A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
- Sydney Smith on Happiness
- A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
- Mary Wortley on Happiness
- A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
- Elsa Schiaparelli on Happiness
- A good education is another name for happiness.
- A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
- Josh Billings on Happiness
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen on Happiness
- 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.
- James Allen on Happiness
- 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.
- Soren Kierkegaard on Happiness
- A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- Honore De Balzac on Happiness
- A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
- Theodor Adorno on Happiness
- A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Happiness
- 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.
- James Madison on Happiness
- A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
- Tom Wilson on Happiness
- 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.
- George Santayana on Happiness
- A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
- Bette Davis on Happiness
- A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein on Happiness
- A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
- 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.
- Suze Orman on Happiness
- A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
- George Eliot on Happiness
- According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.
- John Buchanan Robinson on Happiness
- 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.
- Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Happiness
- Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
- William James on Happiness
- 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.
- John Stuart Mill on Happiness
- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis on Happiness
- Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
- Laurence Sterne on Happiness
- All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
- John Gunther on Happiness
- All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
- Baruch Spinoza on Happiness
- 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.
- William Law on Happiness
- All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
- Lord Byron on Happiness
- All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
- Daniel Boone on Happiness
- Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin on Happiness
- Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
- Anna Pavlova on Happiness
- 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.
- Mario Batali on Happiness
- Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
- Baltasar Gracian on Happiness
- Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Happiness
- 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.
- Louis D. Brandeis on Happiness
- An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
- Maurice Maeterlinck on Happiness
- An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
- Lydia M. Child on Happiness
- 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.
- Clara Barton on Happiness
- An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
- Orson Pratt on Happiness
- 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.
- Adam Weishaupt on Happiness
- And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
- And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.
- Jamie Foxx on Happiness
- And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Happiness
- Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
- Bertrand Russell on Happiness
- 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.
- Dale Carnegie on Happiness
- 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.
- Bharati Mukherjee on Happiness
- As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
- Samuel Richardson on Happiness
- As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
- Dan Stevens on Happiness
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