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Category: Happiness

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1. "Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit."

Marcel Proust, "Time Regained"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

2. "The true paradises are paradises we have lost."

Marcel Proust, "Time Regained"

3. "It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

William Somerset Maugham, "Moon and Sixpence"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

4. "Unlucky woman is like a matchmaker - she selects men not for herself."

Lidia Jasinska

5. "To make woman unhappy only need to do nothing."

Lidia Jasinska

6. "Men make women happy who are already happy."

Lidia Jasinska

7. "One is never so happy or so unhappy as one fancies."

François de La Rochefoucauld

8. "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Woman and Man -:- Love

9. "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."

Aldous Huxley

10. "Happiness is being married to your best friend."

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Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Marriage

11. "Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Quotations about: Love

12. "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."

Immanuel Kant

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

13. "Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

Maxim Gorky

14. "Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

15. "Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Envy

16. "Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Human

17. "High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

18. "The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."

Bertrand Russell

19. "It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good."

Helen Keller, "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

20. "Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness."

John Stuart Mill

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21. "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."

Helen Keller

22. "A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Time and Passing

23. "Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life."

Helen Keller, "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

24. "There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life."

Arthur Schopenhauer

25. "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."

Henry Miller

26. "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."

Aldous Huxley

27. "Call no man unhappy until he is married."

Socrates

Quotations about: Marriage

28. "Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

John Stuart Mill

29. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Mahatma Gandhi

30. "It is a kind of happiness to know how unhappy we must be."

François de La Rochefoucauld

31. "The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

32. "All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Lev Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

33. "Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."

André Gide

Quotations about: Memory

34. "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

Quotations about: Marriage

35. "Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."

Lev Tolstoy, "War and Peace"

Quotations about: Love -:- Reality and Imagination

36. "The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Quotations about: Marriage

37. "If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."

Josh Billings

38. "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

Gustave Flaubert

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

39. "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Abraham Lincoln

40. "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

41. "It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it."

Joseph Joubert

42. "The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

43. "A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."

Helen Keller, "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

44. "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Helen Keller

Quotations about: Loyalty and Betrayal

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