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3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

3 December 2020 Ai Weiwei

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. ‘Made-in-China’ goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Hoff

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

3 December 2020 Elsie de Wolfe

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

3 December 2020 Oscar Levant

Happiness isn’t something you experience it’s something you remember.

3 December 2020 Zoe Saldana

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

3 December 2020 Robert Herrick

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

3 December 2020 Bo Bennett

One’s work usually occupies more than half of one’s waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

3 December 2020 Milan Kundera

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

3 December 2020 Henry Drummond

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

3 December 2020 Joseph Roux

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

3 December 2020 Giorgio Armani

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves – that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

3 December 2020 Lillie Langtry

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.

3 December 2020 Anwar Sadat

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

3 December 2020 Diana Ross

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

3 December 2020 Barbara de Angelis

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

3 December 2020 Leo Buscaglia

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

3 December 2020 Austin O'Malley

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

3 December 2020 Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

3 December 2020 Henry James Sumner Maine

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

3 December 2020 Dionne Warwick

Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

3 December 2020 William Burroughs

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

3 December 2020 Guru Nanak

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone.

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