Knowledge produces mildness of speech; mildness of speech, a good character; a good character, wealth; wealth, if virtuous actions attend it, happiness.
– The Hitopadesa
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.
– Maitri Upanishads
Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
– Aristotle
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
– George Sand
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
– Smiley Blanton
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
– Norman Lear
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
– Sydney Smith
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
– Victor Hugo
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
– Robert Anson Heinlein
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
– Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance.
– Butler
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
– Bertrand Russell
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
– Helen Keller
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
– Nikolaus Lenus
May the lightness of your happiness out-interest you from the heaviness of your thoughts.
– Brandon A. Trean
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
– Barry Duncan
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
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
– Bill Vaughan
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.
– Lord Mancroft
Most people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.
– Wayne W Dyer
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
– E.M. Cioran
