No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
– Mary Wollstonecraft
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
– Samuel Johnson
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
– Gabrid Garcia Marquez
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.
– Charlotte Bronte
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.
– Cyrus Corteise
O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
– William Cowper
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
– Bertrand Russell
One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
– Herodotus
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
– William Feather
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
– Rita Mae Brown
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
– Terry Pratchett, Jingo
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
– Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
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.
– Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
– Sophocles
Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.
– Anthon St Maarten
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
– Sydney Harris
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.
– Barbara Mikkelson
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.
– Andrew Bonar Law
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
– Karl Popper
Pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
– Coleridge
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
– William Faulkner
Real and solid happiness springs from moderation.
– Goethe
