Quotes about happiness

"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness
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"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness
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"A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness   

"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness   

"If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness."

Goldsmith, Oliver on happiness   

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."

Goodman, Roy on happiness
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"Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child."

Grayson, David on happiness   

"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance."

Greene, Graham on happiness
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"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least."

Harrigan, John on happiness   

"Happiness 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."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on happiness   

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on happiness
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"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits."

Hazlitt, William on happiness   

"If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host."

Heatter, Gabriel on happiness
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"Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics."

Heinlein, Robert on happiness
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"Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object"

Hesse, Hermann on happiness   

"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt."

Heywood, John on happiness   

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

Hills, Burton on happiness
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

Hoffer, Eric on happiness
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"Happiness requires problems"

Hollingworth, H. L. on happiness   

"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."

Hope, Bob on happiness
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"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all."

Horace on happiness
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"To buy happiness is to sell soul."

Horton, Doug on happiness   

"It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative."

Horton, Doug on happiness   

"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past."

Horton, Doug on happiness   

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

Howard, Vernon on happiness   

"The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work."

Hubbard, Elbert on happiness
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"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."

Hubbard, Kin on happiness   

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Hugo, Victor on happiness
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"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on happiness   

"The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being."

Hume, David on happiness   

"Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition."

Hume, David on happiness   

"I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."

Huxley, Aldous on happiness
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"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on happiness
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"Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on happiness
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"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."

Jackson, Holbrook on happiness
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"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction."

James, William on happiness
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"The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour."

Jeans, Sir James on happiness   

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."

Jefferson, Thomas on happiness
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"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."

Jefferson, Thomas on happiness   

"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity."

Jefferson, Thomas on happiness
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