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Category: Happiness

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1. "Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Human

2. "Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Memory -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

3. "To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."

Gustave Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet; August 6, 1846

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

4. "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."

Clint Eastwood

Other categories: Marriage

5. "Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

Gustave Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet

6. "A husband is a man who lost his liberty in pursuit of happiness."

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Other categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Marriage

7. "Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Marriage

8. "Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Italian Journey"

Other categories: Peace and War

9. "Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."

Henri Matisse

Other categories: Work and Laziness

10. "The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy."

Jean de La Bruyere, "Les Caracteres"

Other categories: Life and Death

11. "He was happily married - but his wife wasn't."

Victor Borge

Other categories: Marriage

12. "It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's not the sort of comfort they supply there."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Letters of C. S. Lewis"

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

13. "Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater."

Thomas a Kempis, "The Imitation Of Christ"

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

14. "Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."

Horace

Other categories: Time and Passing

15. "The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."

Quentin Crisp

Other categories: History and Nations

16. "Beauty is only the promise of happiness."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness

17. "Striving for better life we waste the one we already have."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Life and Death

18. "Chasing happiness all the time we run away from the one we have already found."

Agnieszka Lisak

19. "The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you.""

Klare Provine

Other categories: Love

20. "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Peace and War

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21. "There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create."

Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare"

Other categories: Various

22. "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."

Francis Bacon

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

23. "Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday."

Jose Raul Bernardo, "The Wise Women of Havana"

24. "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

Jane Austen

Other categories: Richness and Money

25. "Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."

Leo Rosten

Other categories: Dreams and Desires

26. "When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy, one doubts nothing."

Joseph Roux

27. "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Law and Crime

28. "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."

Robertson Davies

29. "All places are distant from heaven alike."

Robert Burton

Other categories: Various

30. "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Other categories: Success and Fame

31. "Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

Francis Bacon

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Time and Passing

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

Burton Hills

Other categories: Life and Death

33. "Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female."

Moss Hart

Other categories: Woman and Man

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

Allan K. Chalmers

Other categories: Love -:- Optimism and Hope

35. "Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

Edward de Bono

Other categories: Talent and Genius

36. "The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."

Ogden Nash, "I’m a Stranger Here Myself"

37. "There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."

Denis Diderot

Other categories: Dreams and Desires

38. "Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not."

George Bernard Shaw, "Captain Brassbound's Conversion"

39. "It’s not money that brings happiness, it’s lots of money."

Russian proverb

Other categories: Richness and Money

40. "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

Thomas Jefferson

Other categories: Various

41. "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy."

Robert Anthony

42. "The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

George Bernard Shaw, "Parents and Children"

Other categories: Work and Laziness

43. "If marriages were made by putting all the men's names into one sack and the women's names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England."

George Bernard Shaw, "Misalliance"

Other categories: Marriage

44. "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry"

Other categories: Art and Culture

45. "Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."

Francis Picabia, "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"

Other categories: Pain and Tears

46. "Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."

George Santayana, "The Life of Reason"

Other categories: Various

47. "Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness."

Henrik Ibsen, "The Wild Duck"

Other categories: Life and Death

48. "Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life. "

Joseph Addison

Other categories: Marriage

49. "Happiness is a hard master — particularly other people’s happiness."

Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"

Other categories: Envy

50. "The happiness of society is the end of government."

John Adams, "Thoughts on Government"

Other categories: Authority, Government

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