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Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Allan K. Chalmers The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Benjamin Franklin The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Aldous Huxley Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn???t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the pi
Helen Keller When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, t
John D. Rockefeller The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
George Sand There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved...
Oscar Wilde Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Og Mandino Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Charles Langbridge Morgan The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
C. P. Snow The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Aldous Huxley Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.
George Santayana Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
William Ellery Channing The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
F. H. Bradley The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Newell Dwight Hillis Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.
Charlotte Bronte No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
Saint Adela Rogers Johns Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he stops.
Andrew Schneider I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.
John W. Gardner Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged, must end in disappo
George Santayana 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.
Jeff Melvoin Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Euripides A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Oscar Wilde Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
Sophocles Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
John Burroughs The secret of happiness is something to do.
Lillian Eichler Watson Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.
Rabbi H. Schachtel Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
G. K. Chesterton Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Austin O'Malley Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Oscar Levant Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.
Roosevelt, Eleanor Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
Henry Van Dyke Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Sophocles Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
David Assael Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.
Confucius They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Desiderius Erasmus It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
George M. Adams To praise is an investment in happiness.
George Santayana Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Dale Carnegie Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Unknown On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
George W. Douglas Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.
George Sand There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.
Marabeth Madsen Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
Eugene O'Neill Happiness hates the timid So does science
Ben Franklin The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Henry Ford There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
George Sand There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved...
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson To fill the hour-that is happiness.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as w
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other,
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Happiness is DEAD AIR at 25 mph!
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is a warm gun.
What???s the use of happiness? It can???t buy you money.
Happiness is a way of praying.
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
Happiness is a warm modem
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Happiness is not a destination. It's the trip.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Happiness Is Mandatory....Are you Happy ?
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.
Happiness is...receiving YOUR posts!!!!
Happiness is a full backup.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Bachelorhood should be taxed, such happiness is valuable.
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
Happiness is finding special characters 

 

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