3 December 2020 Andre Gide What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
3 December 2020 Matthew Arnold To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
3 December 2020 Olympia Brown He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
3 December 2020 John Mason Good Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
3 December 2020 Thomas Chandler Haliburton The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
3 December 2020 Epictetus The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
3 December 2020 Alice Meynell Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
3 December 2020 Marguerite Duras It’s afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn’t necessarily prove that you loved him.
3 December 2020 Charles Sumner No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
3 December 2020 Maurice Chevalier If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
3 December 2020 Jacques Prevert Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man’s own will.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
3 December 2020 Gilbert Murray The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
3 December 2020 Plato Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
3 December 2020 Duncan Sheik So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
