What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
John GreenSome cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.
Oscar WildeLet no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother TeresaHappiness depends upon ourselves.
AristotleHe who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyNothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
Virginia WoolfWith freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar WildeSanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark TwainIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert EinsteinBe happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Mother TeresaSince the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
AristotleThere are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.
Paulo CoelhoGrief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark TwainKnow your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.
Jane AustenNo one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen KellerTo be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell HolmesLove is trembling happiness.
Kahlil GibranGood men abandon lusting after things, they take no pleasure in sensual speech, when touched by happiness or sorrow, the wise show no elation or dejection.
BuddhaBut oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William ShakespeareIt is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin FranklinI heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it because it is very true.
Audrey HepburnThere are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil GibranA man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman, than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene DietrichAll men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First have a definite clear practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve it.
AristotleGive a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard ShawI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerHappiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf you want a happy ending, that depends of course on where you stop your story.
Orson WellesFortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar GracianTo be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.
Gustave FlaubertWe live in an ascending scale, when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis StevensonThe disciple should associate with a wise friend who detects and censures his faults and who points out virtues as a guide tells of buried treasures. There is happiness not woe to him who associates with such an intelligent friend.
BuddhaHow happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander PopeIt isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Groucho MarxI don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
Drew BarrymoreThe human race has one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Mark TwainIf you're respectful by habit constantly honoring the worthy four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
BuddhaAnd I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear.
William BlakeA well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da VinciHappiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid BergmanThey must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
ConfuciusAll that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.
BuddhaThe secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny YoungmanI never forget a face but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho MarxDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel KantNothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre GideYour success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen KellerHappiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself "I shall today be uppermost".
ConfuciusThe man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent, and he is never bored and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia WoolfIt takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss, volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George SantayanaThe world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar WildeAllow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel JohnsonEvery gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard BachHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHappiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
AristotleThe happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel JohnsonSuffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
AristotleIf you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund BurkeA table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin, what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert EinsteinHappiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
AristotleThe happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord TennysonA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre MauroisAs a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran LebowitzSometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy then I'm everything I want to be.
Angelina JoliePoliticians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory or happiness.
AristotleThere are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin FranklinI'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
Kurt CobainMarriage is the most natural state of man and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin FranklinThis planet has -- or rather had -- a problem which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
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