Arthur Schopenhauer - The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
George Burns - Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
Robert Green Ingersoll - Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
John Dryden - Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Deepak Chopra - Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
C. S. Lewis - You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Richard Bach - If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
F. H. Bradley - The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
William Ellery Channing - How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Leo Rosten - Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Helen Keller - True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Ernie Banks - You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Percy Ross - You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Booth Tarkington - So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Euripides - Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Bertrand Russell - Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Albert Camus - But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Friedrich Schiller - Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Dalai Lama - If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Leo Buscaglia - What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Sarah McLachlan - Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Alphonse Karr - Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Chuck Palahniuk - The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Anatole France - Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Andrei Platonov - Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Malcolm Forbes - When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Helen Keller - Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Bette Davis - A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Agnes Repplier - It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Pearl S. Buck - Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Bertrand Russell - A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Dale Carnegie - Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Joseph Roux - When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Mark Twain - There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Don Marquis - Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
J. D. Salinger - I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Baruch Spinoza - Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Alfred Lord Tennyson - The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Jose Marti - Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Peter Drucker - Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Frank McCourt - Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Denis Diderot - There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Andy Rooney - Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Deepak Chopra - Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
Andre Maurois - The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
William Inge - The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Desiderius Erasmus - It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Ovid - Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Leslie Caron - In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
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