1. Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. - Victor Hugo
2. To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. - Victor Hugo
3. Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. - Victor Hugo
4. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. - Viktor E. Frankl
5. 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.' - Viktor E. Frankl
6. God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there. - Billy Graham
7. Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. - George Orwell
8. 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. - Sigmund Freud
9. 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. - Sigmund Freud
10. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
11. Independence is happiness. - Susan B. Anthony
12. Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. - Heraclitus
13. Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. - William Butler Yeats
14. 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
15. I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness. - William Godwin
16. The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness. - William Godwin
17. How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses. - William Godwin
18. How nations and races of men are to be so governed as may be most conducive to the improvement and happiness of all is one of the most interesting questions that can be offered to our consideration. - William Godwin
19. The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. - Karl Marx
20. Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. - Arthur Schopenhauer
21. 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. - Arthur Schopenhauer
22. The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. - Arthur Schopenhauer
23. Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. - Aldous Huxley
24. 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. - Aldous Huxley
25. The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. - George Eliot
26. 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
27. Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. - Thomas Aquinas
28. 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. - Francis Bacon
29. 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. - Thomas Paine
30. Beauty is the promise of happiness. - Edmund Burke
31. Where fear is, happiness is not. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
32. 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. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
33. 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. - Bertrand Russell
34. 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. - Bertrand Russell
35. Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell
36. 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. - Bertrand Russell
37. The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. - Bertrand Russell
38. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. - Bertrand Russell
39. Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. - Bertrand Russell
40. If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. - Bertrand Russell
41. 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. - William Blake
42. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. - Benjamin Disraeli
43. 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. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
45. Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
46. In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
47. I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy. - Joyce Meyer
48. I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy. - Joyce Meyer
49. How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. - William James
50. Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. - William James
51. It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. - Jordan Peterson
52. Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. - Blaise Pascal
53. 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. - D. H. Lawrence
54. So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. - D. H. Lawrence
55. 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
56. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie
57. The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . - Dale Carnegie
58. Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. - Dale Carnegie
59. An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. - Sonia Sotomayor
60. 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. - Samuel Johnson
61. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. - Samuel Johnson
62. We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. - Samuel Johnson
63. 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. - Samuel Johnson
64. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. - Samuel Johnson
65. Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. - Samuel Johnson
66. Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. - Samuel Johnson
67. 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
68. There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - Samuel Johnson
69. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
70. I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. - Lord Byron
71. The happiness of society is the end of government. - John Adams
72. Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. - Alexander Pope
73. I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. - Taylor Swift
74. 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. - Taylor Swift
75. Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. - Aeschylus
76. And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. - Aeschylus
77. 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. - Aeschylus
78. I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. - Elie Wiesel
79. 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. - Alice Walker
80. Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman Vincent Peale
81. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. - Jane Austen
82. One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. - Leo Tolstoy
83. 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. - Leo Tolstoy
84. The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. - Elbert Hubbard
85. What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. - Henny Youngman
86. If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
87. 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. - Brene Brown
88. I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it. - Brene Brown
89. Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made. - John Lewis
90. 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
91. All rationalism tends to minimalize the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. - H. P. Lovecraft
92. Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. - Robert Orben
93. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
94. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
95. Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
96. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
97. When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. - Arthur Ashe
98. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
99. Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. - Richard Bach
100. 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
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