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Epicurus:
  • There is only one way to happiness, you have to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

    • Gandhi:
  • Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

    • Thucydides:
  • The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

    • Cicero:
  • Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

    • Jacques Prevert:
  • Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, you should never completely forget about it.

    • Exupery:
  • True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

    • Elizabeth Bishop:
  • Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

    • Sergei Yesenin:
  • Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?

    • Gracian:
  • Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

    • Dostoevsky:
  • Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

    • Kalidasa:
  • ..today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope

    • Apollinaire:
  • Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

    • Seneca:
  • Where fear is, happiness is not.

    • Goethe:
  • The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

    • Mozart:
  • I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

    • Henri Rousseau:
  • Beauty is the promise of happiness

    • Hawthorne:
  • Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

    • Balzac:
  • All happiness depends on courage and work.

    • Hemingway:
  • Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

    • Nino Rota:
  • I do what I can to give everyone a moment of happiness. This is at the heart of my music.

    • Pearl Buck:
  • Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

    • Pythagoras:
  • Do not look out for happiness, it is always within you

    • Schubert:
  • You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

    • Rene Crevel:
  • It is another story with curved lines. The song of the curved line is called happiness.

    • Emile Zola:
  • “I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.”

    • Chopin:
  • Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

    • Mary Shelley:
  • No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

    • Jose Martí:
  • Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

    • Alexandre Dumas:
  • Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

    • Epictetus:
  • The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

    • Gabriel Marquez:
  • No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

    • Wilhelm Reich:
  • You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

    • Maxim Gorky:
  • “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

    • Strindberg:
  • Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

    • de Sade,Marquis:
  • Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

    • Talleyrand:
  • Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

    • Remarque:
  • It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

    • Victor Hugo:
  • The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

    • George Orwell:
  • Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

    • Montesquieu:
  • False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

    • Jack Kerouac:
  • Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.

    • Flaubert:
  • To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

    • Chopin:
  • I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

    • Stefan Zweig:
  • Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

    • Bataille:
  • Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

    • William James:
  • Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

    • Fitzgerald:
  • 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.

    • Feuerbach:
  • To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.”

    • Kazantzakis:
  • I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

    • Schubert:
  • The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

    • Horace:
  • You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

    • Freddie Mercury:
  • Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

    • B. W. Yeats:
  • Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

    • Benjamin Franklin:
  • The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

    • de Sade,Marquis:
  • Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

    • Albert Camus:
  • You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

    • Wollstonecraft:
  • No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mary-wollstonecraft-quotes

    • Viktor Frankl:
  • Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

    • Kierkegaard:
  • 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.

    • Schweitzer:
  • Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory

    • Schiller:
  • The will of man is his happiness.

    • Epicurus:
  • The essence of philosophy is that a man should live so that his happiness will depend as little as possible on external things.

    • Strindberg:
  • He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • 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.

    • Rochefoucauld:
  • he happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

    • Robespierre:
  • By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

    • Sophocles:
  • Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

    • Jane Austen:
  • Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

    • Dostoevsky:
  • Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

    • Jonathan Swift:
  • Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

    • Epictetus:
  • There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

    • Upton Sinclair:
  • Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

    • Hemingway:
  • The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

    • Democritus:
  • Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness lives in the soul.

    • Buddha:
  • There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

    • Immanuel Kant:
  • Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

    • Alexandre Dumas:
  • Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

    • Washington:
  • There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

    • W. Burroughs:
  • Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

    • Lawrence:
  • 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.

    • Balzac:
  • “Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”

    • Skinner:
  • If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

    • Washington:
  • Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

    • Victor Hugo:
  • To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

    • Pablo Picasso:
  • Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

    • Kazantzakis:
  • Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.

    • Bernard Shaw:
  • We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • 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.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • 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.

    • Plutarch:
  • Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

    • Sophocles:
  • Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

    • Seneca:
  • True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxiety about the future.

    • Hermann Hesse:
  • Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.