The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck PalahniukJust do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.
George Bernard ShawThe happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves CousteauMan is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor DostoevskyYou traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
HoraceHappiness doesn't depend on any external conditions it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale CarnegieThe only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas CarlyleHappiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe more refined one is the more unhappy.
Anton ChekhovHey I'm a Catholic deer hunter I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
Paul RyanHappy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
VirgilThe secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand RussellThey are clearly very much in love. It must be the end of a series of nightmare years for Camilla every day reading in the papers about being the mistress this and that. They are entitled to have their own happiness the same as everyone else.
Winston ChurchillThey say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess DianaWho will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich FrommUnquestionably it is possible to do without happiness, it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart MillHappy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Friedrich SchillerI'm just happy I'm not a phony.
Mike TysonThe 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 ShawThe most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
Mason CooleyI'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
Albert EllisWere it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Samuel JohnsonI believe in the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice loving mercy and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas PaineI'm mortified to be on the stage but then again it's the only place where I'm happy.
Bob DylanDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLuckier than one's neighbor but still not happy.
EuripidesA pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it but is in it.
Theodor W. AdornoSubordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel JohnsonThere is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David ThoreauHappiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John BarrymoreHappiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Theodor W. AdornoThe only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard ShawExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little, we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William CowperThe only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H. L. MenckenTrue happiness arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph AddisonThe cure that Baba has given us for this malady is service. Service slowly and steadily broadens one's heart bringing with it an unexpected feeling of happiness and it begins to transform the community around us as well.
Sai BabaAnd one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness, and he will never come to utter ruin.
AeschylusHappiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn RandNo married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H. L. MenckenAh! happy years! once more who would not be a boy?
Lord ByronTo be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert CamusHappiness is a hard master particularly other people's happiness.
Aldous HuxleyThe supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor HugoHappiness is a mystery like religion and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLet no one who loves be unhappy even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James Matthew BarrieHappiness can exist only in acceptance.
George OrwellOne of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo TolstoyWisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
SophoclesWhat you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
Colin PowellThe only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest HemingwayA man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren KierkegaardAction may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin DisraeliMy decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.
Kim KardashianThe white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick DouglassIf a man will understand how intimately yea how inseparably self-control and happiness are associated he has but to look into his own heart and upon the world around ...Looking upon the lives of men and women he will perceive how the hasty word the bitter retort the act of deception the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.
James AllenMusic is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. CioranWe rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life and who content with his life can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
HoraceIt is the harmony peace and mutual love between men and women that brings happiness and peace to the family. People want happiness in the family but they do not lead exemplary lives. The fault lies with both the husband and the wife.
Sai BabaActing is happy agony.
Jean-Paul SartreA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur SchopenhauerEven in the common affairs of life in love friendship and marriage how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William HazlittResolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness, it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
Samuel JohnsonThere is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous HuxleyYou should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Aldous HuxleyDrink because you are happy but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHappiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel HawthorneMy life has no purpose no direction no aim no meaning and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. SchulzThe truest greatness lies in being kind the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis StevensonHappy happy Christmas that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles DickensOh if I had been loved at the age of seventeen what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon it can completely ruin your constitution.
Gustave FlaubertHappiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Richard BachWe are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo describe happiness is to diminish it.
StendhalTravel safe and arrive happy.
Sai BabaTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.
James MadisonThe secret of happiness is something to do.
John BurroughsWe are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George WashingtonThe health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin DisraeliYou are happy that you have come on a pilgrimage here but let Me tell you one thing unless you control the stream of desire that springs in the mind this is just a wasted opportunity. If your wish is fulfilled you revere Me, if it is not you revile Me. That is how Desire debases you.
Sai BabaTrue happiness... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen KellerHappiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
AristotleWhat makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
Taylor SwiftI feel like I'm at a really happy good space.
Kim KardashianI'm very happy for the city. The city is used to championships and I am as well.
Kobe BryantThe struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert CamusBe more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Abdul KalamHe who would be useful strong and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative beggarly and impure streams of thought, and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests so must he learn to command his desires and to say with authority what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.
James AllenI am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord ByronTo love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
Woody AllenSome say that happiness is not good for mortals and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one, a blight never does good to a tree and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
William BlakeA man should always consider how much more unhappy he might be than he is
Joseph AddisonI believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey HepburnMan needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand RussellMan's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him and love something to be cherished by him forever.
John RuskinLife's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor HugoI've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand RussellI have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people being always excited, women wine fame the table even ambition sate now and then but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
Lord ByronWe are not the same persons this year as last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset MaughamThe essentials to happiness are something to love something to do and something to hope for.
William BlakeMarriage 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
Joseph Addison