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 CarnegieHappy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
VirgilIt's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Marilyn MonroeThey 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 MillDancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
Mason CooleyI 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 GoetheNo one is in control of your happiness but you, therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara de AngelisSubordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel JohnsonThe only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard ShawTrue 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 AddisonHappiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn RandAh! happy years! once more who would not be a boy?
Lord ByronThe supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor HugoWe 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 JeffersonOne of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo TolstoyMy 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 KardashianIf 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 AllenA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur SchopenhauerResolve 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 JohnsonHappiness 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 HawthorneThe 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 StevensonMen who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand RussellOh 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 WashingtonYou 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 KellerWhat 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 BryantBe more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Abdul KalamIf thou wilt make a man happy add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EpicurusIf 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 BillingsMost 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 ChristieIn 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 DianaIt is one of the most saddening things in life that try as we may we can never be certain of making people happy whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Thomas HuxleyThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph AddisonTo be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard ShawThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusWe don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
William JamesThe Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin FranklinI 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 JolieIt is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius ErasmusHappiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose BierceWhether happiness may come or not one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George EliotEvery word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'.
Richard BachThe world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis StevensonIt is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas PaineMind prompts man to seek happiness and avoid misery.
Sai BabaIt is not God's will merely that we should be happy but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel KantWhen we all walked in you could feel their spirits being uplifted like they felt very encouraged and happy that we were there. It was just real cool to see that. To be able to go back (to New Orleans) play a game there and be able to uplift them again that's special.
Kobe Bryantnot happy because Lance did them in front of their own birds.
Lance ArmstrongHappiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.
Nathaniel HawthorneMy son is healthy and happy so that's all that matters to me.
Christina AguileraAll who would win joy must share it, happiness was born a twin.
Lord ByronThe best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne FrankEven when we have physical hardships we can be very happy.
Dalai LamaI'm not happy all the time and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
Dolly PartonYour most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill GatesHappy is the hearing man, unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI'm happy with the way my career ended. I'm not going back
Lance ArmstrongWe have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard ShawI need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Jim CarreyFuture. That period of time in which our affairs prosper our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose BierceOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusI remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Steven WrightThe learned is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more.
Alexander PopeOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusA sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette DavisThere 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 BaconI have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor SwiftDon'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 AllenHappiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak ChopraIf a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
BuddhaTrue happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyIt is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.
Charles SpurgeonThe way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy when you are really happy Joseph Campbell
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteOnly 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 ByronEven when a person has all of life's comforts - good food good shelter a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
Dalai LamaWe exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de BalzacA good way I know to find happiness is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Josh BillingsI feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
Alice WalkerSince you get more joy out of giving joy to others you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor RooseveltI've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk I'm not happy. If I'm scared then I know I'm being challenged.
Jim CarreyPeople who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth GalbraithOur friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote but they don't want you to know their plan.
Barack ObamaHappiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
Gustave FlaubertShop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price
Richard BachAnything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand RussellDo not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PlutarchYou only want shares in good companies. And these are shares I'm happy to have 'cos this is one hell of a good company
Lance ArmstrongUnhappiness is something we are never taught about, we are taught to expect happiness but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
Doug CouplandOnly two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other is to let her have it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWe become moral when we are unhappy.
Marcel ProustThey are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis BaconWe all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne FrankHappiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI 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 AllenWhat we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund FreudI do not say think as I think but think in my way. Fear no shadows least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas HuxleySome 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 BachKeep your home and its environs clean, it will ensure health and happiness for you and for society.
Sai BabaOne thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert SchweitzerWhoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy though he be master of the world.
EpictetusThe world is full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis StevensonI have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do the draughts are open and my chimney draws and I am happy.
John BurroughsI don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
Hedy LamarrHe who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur SchopenhauerPoor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
Mason CooleyI don't sing because I'm happy, I'm happy because I sing.
William JamesThe important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph AddisonIf 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 EmersonFriendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe 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 HepburnMan needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand RussellHappiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas JeffersonMan'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 RuskinHappy 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 WilsonThe 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 DylanLet 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.
BuddhaLife's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor HugoThey must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
ConfuciusIf 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 SenecaOur 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 DruckerDoing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor HugoThe happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel JohnsonTo 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 PascalI have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart MillAchievement 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'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 CarnegieThe essentials to happiness are something to love something to do and something to hope for.
William BlakeGoing to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. ThompsonMarriage 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 AddisonThere is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel JohnsonMan'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