Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.
– John Stuart Mill
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
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
– John W. Gardner
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
– Henry James
True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, to one's affections, and one's inner happiness.
– George Sand
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
– Aldous Huxley
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.
– Alanis Morissette
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
– Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
– George Bernard Shaw
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– US Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar
