An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
– Goethe
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
– Maurice Masterlinck
And love is two misfortunes which together happiness are.
– Charles de LEUSSE
And love is two misfortunes which together happiness are.(Et l’amour, c’est deux malheurs Qui ensemble font un bonheur)
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
– C. C. Colton
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
– Charles Dickens
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
– Dale Carnegie
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
– Thomas Mann
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
– Unknown
Being happiness doesn't a mean you got every things but it means you find a way to achieve your desire things.
– Prakash Adhikari
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
– Randall Jarrell
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
– Albert Camus
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
– Benjamin Franklin
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
– Rabbi Harold Kushner
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living
– Amanda Bradley
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
– John Howe
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
– Shelley
Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
– Jeff Melvoin
Climbing that ladder of social hierarchy is an illusion that deludes any sense of happiness or truth.
– Brandon A. Trean
Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
– Mitchell Burgess
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
– Bryant McGill
Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
– The Laws of Manu
Depend not on another, rather lean Upon thyself; trust to thine own exertions: Subjection to another?s will gives pain; True happiness consists in self-reliance.
– Manu
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
– Henri Matisse
