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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Happiness

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Camus, Albert | Happiness

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Keller, Helen | Happiness

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

White, E.B. | Happiness

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Freud, Sigmund | Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero | Happiness

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.

Johnson, Samuel | Happiness

To fill the hour - that is happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Happiness

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Twain, Mark | Happiness

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Von | Happiness

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Syrus, Publilius | Happiness

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Chambers, Allan K. | Happiness

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheim, James | Happiness

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas | Happiness

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Euripides | Happiness

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Keller, Helen | Happiness

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Fuller, Thomas | Happiness

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Russell, Bertrand | Happiness

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Proust, Marcel | Happiness

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Russell, Bertrand | Happiness

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; perty and wealth have both failed.

Hubbard, Kin | Happiness

It is better to be happy for a momen tand be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Marquis, Don | Happiness

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

St. Augustine | Happiness

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Akhenaton | Happiness

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Russell, Bertrand | Happiness

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart | Happiness

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous | Happiness

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Blake, William | Happiness

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Colton, Charles C. | Happiness

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Frost, Robert | Happiness

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Levent, Oscar | Happiness

Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert G. | Happiness

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Hills, Burton | Happiness

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Chinese Proverb | Happiness

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Euripides | Happiness

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Davies, Robertson | Happiness

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle | Happiness

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert | Happiness

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Pr?vert, Jacques | Happiness

Different men seek after happiness indifferent ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle | Happiness

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Shakespeare, William | Happiness

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Scottish Proverb | Happiness

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Santayana, George | Happiness

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

France, Anatole | Happiness

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

de Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier | Happiness

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Percy Ross | Happiness

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus | Happiness

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Helen Keller | Happiness

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

Islom Karimov | Happiness

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

George Mason | Happiness

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus | Happiness

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace | Happiness

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Brad Garrett | Happiness

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

Candace Bushnell | Happiness

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Ernie Banks | Happiness

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

Shahrukh Khan | Happiness

You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.

Andrew Sullivan | Happiness

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

Vivien Leigh | Happiness

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Julia Roberts | Happiness

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

John Mayer | Happiness

You find happiness where you find it.

Anna Paquin | Happiness

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Tracy Kidder | Happiness

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Philip Kaufman | Happiness

You can be happy where you are.

Joel Osteen | Happiness

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Franz Schubert | Happiness

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

Sergey Brin | Happiness

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

Debra Messing | Happiness

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Robert Burton | Happiness

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

David Sarnoff | Happiness

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

Nassau William Senior | Happiness

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles | Happiness

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Happiness

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Anthony Hopkins | Happiness

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Jonathan Safran Foer | Happiness

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Bo Derek | Happiness

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Bo Bennett | Happiness

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Bryant H. McGill | Happiness

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Sarah Vowell | Happiness

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

George Eliot | Happiness

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Happiness

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Debra Messing | Happiness

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

Emily Blunt | Happiness

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

Suze Orman | Happiness

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman | Happiness

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

Daniel Kahneman | Happiness

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Malcolm Forbes | Happiness

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

Arthur Ashe | Happiness

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Bob Hope | Happiness

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

George Porter | Happiness

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

Lynn Johnston | Happiness

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

Paul Ryan | Happiness

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Tom Ford | Happiness

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

Pia Toscano | Happiness

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Thornton Wilder | Happiness

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Thomas Merton | Happiness

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Anna Pavlova | Happiness

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Sophocles | Happiness

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Henny Youngman | Happiness

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Andre Gide | Happiness

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Leo Buscaglia | Happiness

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Sigmund Freud | Happiness