- 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.
- Irving Babbitt on Happiness
- That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
- Francis Hutcheson on Happiness
- That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
- Willa Cather on Happiness
- That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
- James Thomson on Happiness
- The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
- William Dean Howells on Happiness
- 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.
- Leni Riefenstahl on Happiness
- The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.
- The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Happiness
- 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.
- Charles Morgan on Happiness
- The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
- Richard Eyre on Happiness
- The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
- Gary Larson on Happiness
- The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
- Heinrich Mann on Happiness
- 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.
- Quentin Crisp on Happiness
- The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson on Happiness
- The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
- William Godwin on Happiness
- The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
- Jesse Ventura on Happiness
- The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin on Happiness
- 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.
- Quentin Crisp on Happiness
- The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
- Winifred Holtby on Happiness
- 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.
- Sidney Sheldon on Happiness
- 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.
- Pierre De Coubertin on Happiness
- The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin on Happiness
- 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.
- Emanuel Swedenborg on Happiness
- The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- 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.
- The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
- Andre Maurois on Happiness
- The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
- The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
- Bryant McGill on Happiness
- 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.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne on Happiness
- 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.
- Omar Bongo on Happiness
- The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
- The gratification of desire is not happiness.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Happiness
- The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
- Thomas Huxley on Happiness
- The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
- Martha Washington on Happiness
- The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
- Walter Annenberg on Happiness
- The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky on Happiness
- The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
- Madame De Stael on Happiness
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo on Happiness
- The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
- Jeremy Bentham on Happiness
- The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Happiness
- The groundwork of all happiness is health.
- Leigh Hunt on Happiness
- The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Happiness
- 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.
- The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson on Happiness
- The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton on Happiness
- The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Happiness
- The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
- Ernest Dimnet on Happiness
- 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.
- Paramahansa Yogananda on Happiness
- The happiness of society is the end of government.
- John Adams on Happiness
- The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau on Happiness
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