The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck PalahniukMan 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 DostoevskyHappiness 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 CarlyleHappy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
VirgilThey 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 DianaUnquestionably 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 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'm mortified to be on the stage but then again it's the only place where I'm happy.
Bob DylanA 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. AdornoHappiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn RandWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas JeffersonWhat 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 PowellIf 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 AllenIt were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible, and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas CarlyleResolve 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 JohnsonTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.
James MadisonWe 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 WashingtonMost successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
Agatha ChristieLearn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl NightingaleIn theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one and not to strive towards it.
Franz KafkaNothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess DianaI grew up as this very carefree happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.
Angelina JolieWhether happiness may come or not one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George EliotHappy is the hearing man, unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott FitzgeraldFuture. That period of time in which our affairs prosper our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose BierceDon't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice WalkerIf we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them they must become happy.
Thomas JeffersonHe 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 AllenIf a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
BuddhaOnly buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren BuffettI am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord ByronI feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
Alice WalkerI would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel JohnsonSo long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business the rest doesn't matter happiness or unhappiness.
David Herbert LawrenceTo 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 BlakeIt is by not always thinking of yourself if you can manage it that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself you will always be searching and lost
Richard BachThe world is full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis StevensonIt is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness, poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin HubbardIf there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand RussellIf all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand RussellThe greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor DostoevskyThe happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha ChristieWe find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTruth righteousness peace and love Sai Baba
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel JohnsonThe intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George EliotThere is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No Sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel JohnsonExcept for the young or very happy I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace ThackerayFriendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph AddisonA man should always consider how much more unhappy he might be than he is
Joseph AddisonThere is nothing Sir too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel JohnsonI 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 HepburnLife is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHappiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas JeffersonHappy the people whose annals are vacant.
Thomas CarlyleI have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz KafkaThe first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre MauroisI am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
Woodrow WilsonI had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William ShakespeareThe secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl SandburgWe're constantly striving for success fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaBride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose BierceYou can't be happy by doing something groovy.
Bob DylanI'm happy being myself which I've never been before. I always hid in other people or tried to find myself through the characters or live out their lives but I didn't have those things in mine.
Angelina JolieLet the wise guard their thoughts which are difficult to perceive extremely subtle and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.
BuddhaOver that time we've been happy with that investment but I've got to tell you I'm happier today. It's a dream deal.
Warren BuffettIf your happiness depends on what somebody else does I guess you do have a problem.
Richard BachI'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 RussellWhen ambition ends happiness begins.
Thomas MertonI have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan PoeHappy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
VirgilThe person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale CarnegieTo be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand RussellPrecepts or maxims are of great weight, and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaModesty and devotion to God are real jewels for woman kind. The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.
Sai BabaOur object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class.
PlatoNever mind your happiness, do your duty.
Peter DruckerThe happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel JohnsonThe happiness of society is the end of government.
John AdamsTo find out what one is fitted to do and to secure and opportunity to do it is the key to happiness
John DeweyHappiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert FrostThe habit of being happy enables one to be freed or largely freed from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis StevensonThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric HofferIf our condition were truly happy we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise PascalSimply put you believer that things or people make you unhappy but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Wayne DyerI have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart MillMillions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
Carroll O'ConnorAchievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.,
Ayn RandI 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 ByronI'm happy to be alive I'm happy to be who I am.
Michael JacksonSuccess is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale CarnegieGoing to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. ThompsonMen want to make women happy.
Jerry SeinfeldMy whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
David Herbert LawrenceMan's unhappiness as I construe comes of his greatness, it is because there is an Infinite in him which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas CarlyleHappiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance order rhythm and harmony.
Thomas MertonYouth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka