3 December 2020 Daniel Dennett The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
3 December 2020 Red Skelton Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
3 December 2020 Todd Akin We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
3 December 2020 August Strindberg Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
3 December 2020 J. B. Priestley To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own – this is happiness.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
3 December 2020 DJ Jazzy Jeff So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
3 December 2020 Joan Rivers People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
3 December 2020 Sarah McLachlan Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
3 December 2020 Andre Maurois Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
3 December 2020 Michael J. Fox My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
3 December 2020 Martha Washington I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
3 December 2020 Richard Bach If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
3 December 2020 Ursula K. Le Guin I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time I mean joy.
3 December 2020 Leni Riefenstahl The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
3 December 2020 Robert Trout Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
3 December 2020 Marguerite Duras The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can’t help it – can’t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
3 December 2020 Carlo Collodi Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
3 December 2020 William Blake Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
