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| When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. (E.B. White) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. (Mark Twain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. (Publilius Syrus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise. (William Blake) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. (St. Augustine) | [▲] | [▼] |
| But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. (William Shakespeare) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. (Scottish Proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. (George Santayana) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. (Akhenaton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If 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 Russell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. (Bertrand Russell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. (Bertrand Russell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. (Marcel Proust) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. (Jacques Prevert) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. (James Oppenheim) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. (John Stuart Mill) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is better to be happy for a momen tand be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. (Don Marquis) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. (Oscar Levent) | [▲] | [▼] |
| No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. (Helen Keller) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. (Samuel Johnson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. (Thomas Jefferson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. (Robert G. Ingersoll) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. (Aldous Huxley) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; perty and wealth have both failed. (Kin Hubbard) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. (Burton Hills) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. (Johann Von Goethe) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Different men seek after happiness indifferent ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. (Aristotle) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Happiness depends upon ourselves. (Aristotle) | [▲] | [▼] |
| No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. (Thomas Fuller) | [▲] | [▼] |