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 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 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, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
– Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
– Smiley Blanton
The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.
– Woodrow Wilson
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
– Carl Jung
The world may not care about you! Cope with this fact! Stand strong like a rock! Keep walking; the road to happiness will mysteriously appear before you!
