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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adler

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Sir Francis Bacon

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.

Mehmet Murat ildan

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Eykis

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

Margaret Lindsey

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

Norm Papernick

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Chamfort

To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

To fill the hour-that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey

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