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

George Santayana, "The Life of Reason"

Quotations about: Various

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

Henrik Ibsen, "The Wild Duck"

Quotations about: Life and Death

3. "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

Quotations about: Marriage

4. "Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness."

Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"

Quotations about: Envy

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

John Adams, "Thoughts on Government"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

6. "To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different"; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

7. "To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Love -:- Woman and Man

8. "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

Anne Frank

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

9. "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "Physiologie du Gout"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

10. "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

Brian Tracy

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope -:- Success and Fame

11. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

Andrew Carnegie

Quotations about: Success and Fame

12. "How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."

Publilius Syrus

Quotations about: Forgiveness

13. "The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it."

Al Batt

14. "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

Margaret Lee Runbeck

15. "Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come."

Chinese proverb

16. "When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

William Makepeace Thackeray

Quotations about: Love

17. "The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

18. "All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."

Spike Milligan

Quotations about: Richness and Money

19. "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

Albert Schweitzer

Quotations about: Memory

20. "Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy."

Anon.

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21. "If you depend on others to make you happy, you will be endlessly disappointed."

Anon.

22. "Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."

Friedrich von Schiller

23. "When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses."

Joyce Brothers

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

24. "A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to."

Russell Baker

Quotations about: Question and Problem

25. "The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do."

Sathya Sai Baba

26. "When one door closes, fortune will usually open another."

Fernando de Rojas

Quotations about: Various

27. "Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work."

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, "Family and Politics"

Quotations about: Love -:- Work and Laziness

28. "Money can't buy happiness but it bought me every skyscrapper in New York."

Andrew Carnegie

Quotations about: Richness and Money

29. "The happiest times of humanity are the blank pages in the book of history."

Leopold von Ranke

Quotations about: History and Nations

30. "Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills."

Soichiro Honda

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

31. "A happy person is one whose arithmetic is at its best when they is counting their blessings."

Anon.

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

32. "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret."

Henny Youngman

Quotations about: Marriage

33. "Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

Zhuang Zi

34. "There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Love

35. "Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product."

Eleanor Roosevelt

36. "We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

François de La Rochefoucauld

37. "Happiness consists of three things: someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience."

Anon.

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience -:- Work and Laziness

38. "Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

Daphme du Maurier

39. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Oscar Wilde

40. "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."

Seneca the Younger

41. "Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French, the lovers Italian, and all is organize by the Swiss."

Eliane Kirchner

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

42. "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Hugh Downs

43. "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."

Francis Herbert Bradley, "Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

44. "Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."

Georges Simenon

Quotations about: Art and Culture

45. "Happiness is a good martini, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman... or a bad woman, depending on how much happiness you can stand."

George Burns

Quotations about: Woman and Man

46. "Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."

Anon.

47. "Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."

Logan Pearsall Smith, "Afterthoughts"

48. "Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."

Bertrand Russell, "Conquest of Happiness"

49. "Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."

George Santayana, "Life of Reason"

Quotations about: Life and Death

50. "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."

Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

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