3 December 2020 William Weld I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
3 December 2020 Joseph Butler Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
3 December 2020 Isaac D'Israeli Time the great destroyer of other men’s happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
3 December 2020 Jillian Michaels We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
3 December 2020 Mary Wortley There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
3 December 2020 Alain Delon I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
3 December 2020 Martin Yan Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
3 December 2020 Daniel Johns I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
3 December 2020 Harold Kushner Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
3 December 2020 Norman Douglas Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
3 December 2020 Gail Porter My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
3 December 2020 Francis Wright We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
3 December 2020 Ernie Banks You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.
3 December 2020 Linus Pauling Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
3 December 2020 Victoria Woodhull I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man’s stature as to his happiness.
