The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.
– John Train
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
– Johann von Goethe
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
– Albert Einstein
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
– Johnson
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.
– Bertrand Russell
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
– Herodotus
The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
The noble-minded dedicate themselves to the promotion of the happiness of others?even of those who injure them. True happiness consists in making happy.
– Bharavi
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
– Lord William Beveridge
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
– William Ellery Channing
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
– John Mason Brown
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
– C. P. Snow
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colourless when unbroken.
– Longfellow
The real and genuine wisdom that man can benefit most is the one which leads to everlasting happiness after death ,anything else is vanity.
– adelkeri
The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth traveling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.
– James M. Barrie
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
– Thucydides
The secret of happiness is something to do.
– John Burroughs
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 that hostile.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
– F. H. Bradley
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
– Al Batt
The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
– Victor Hugo
