The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than he discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
– Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
– Epictetus
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
– Andr Maurois
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
– James Oppenheim
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and 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, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.
– Johnson
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
– Samuel Johnson
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Allan K. Chalmers
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
– Joseph Addison
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
– Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
– Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.
– Tibetan Doctrine
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
– William Lyon Phelps
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
– Ernest Dimnet
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
– Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
– Bertrand Russell
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
– J. Petit-Senn
