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1. "The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment."

Anon.

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

2. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."

Albert Schweitzer

Quotations about: Success and Fame

3. "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."

Bill Vaughan

Quotations about: Richness and Money

4. "All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."

Daniel Boone

5. "Happy is the nation without a history."

Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishments"

Quotations about: History and Nations

6. "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"

Quotations about: Human

7. "Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Memory -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

8. "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

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

9. "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

Quotations about: Marriage

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

Gustave Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude -:- Marriage

12. "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"

Quotations about: Marriage

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Italian Journey"

Quotations about: Peace and War

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

Henri Matisse

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

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

Jean de La Bruyere, "Les Caracteres"

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

Victor Borge

Quotations about: Marriage

17. "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"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

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

Thomas a Kempis, "The Imitation Of Christ"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

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

Horace

Quotations about: Time and Passing

20. "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

Quotations about: History and Nations

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

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

Agnieszka Lisak

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

Klare Provine

Quotations about: Love

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Peace and War

26. "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"

Quotations about: Various

27. "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

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Jose Raul Bernardo, "The Wise Women of Havana"

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

Jane Austen

Quotations about: Richness and Money

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

Leo Rosten

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

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

Joseph Roux

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

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Law and Crime

33. "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

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

Robert Burton

Quotations about: Various

35. "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.

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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

Francis Bacon

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Time and Passing

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

Burton Hills

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

Moss Hart

Quotations about: Woman and Man

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

Allan K. Chalmers

Quotations about: Love -:- Optimism and Hope

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

Edward de Bono

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

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

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

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

Denis Diderot

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

43. "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"

44. "It's not money that brings happiness, it's lots of money."

Russian proverb

Quotations about: Richness and Money

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

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: Various

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

Robert Anthony

47. "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"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

48. "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"

Quotations about: Marriage

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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

Francis Picabia, "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

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