- Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
- Herbert Spencer on Happiness
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- Bertrand Russell on Happiness
- Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
- Paulo Coelho on Happiness
- 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!
- Ludwig Van Beethoven on Happiness
- 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.
- Guru Nanak on Happiness
- 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.
- Maurice Sendak on Happiness
- Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
- Gustave Flaubert on Happiness
- On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!
- Chandler Massey on Happiness
- One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
- Isabelle Eberhardt on Happiness
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
- Gustave Flaubert on Happiness
- 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.
- Sean Hannity on Happiness
- One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
- Leo Tolstoy on Happiness
- One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
- William Feather on Happiness
- One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown on Happiness
- One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
- Maria Montessori on Happiness
- 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.
- Laura Schlessinger on Happiness
- One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey on Happiness
- One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
- Bo Bennett on Happiness
- Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
- John Dryden on Happiness
- Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
- Greg Anderson on Happiness
- Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
- Heraclitus on Happiness
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson on Happiness
- Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
- Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
- Leonard Boswell on Happiness
- Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
- 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.
- Red Skelton on Happiness
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