3 December 2020 John Howe Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
3 December 2020 Victoria Jackson But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don’t have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they’re a movie star.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
3 December 2020 Wilhelm von Humboldt 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.
3 December 2020 Joseph Butler Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
3 December 2020 Godfrey Reggio Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
3 December 2020 William Feather Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
3 December 2020 Rod Parsley The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
3 December 2020 Hosea Ballou Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
3 December 2020 Arthur Rimbaud I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
3 December 2020 Andrew Weil Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
3 December 2020 George Porter When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
3 December 2020 Kenichi Fukui We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness – not disaster – to human beings.
3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on ‘being more’ rather than simply having more.
3 December 2020 Charlie Chaplin We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
3 December 2020 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
3 December 2020 Ogden Nash There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
3 December 2020 Jon Huntsman, Jr. People truly reaching across boundaries – be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual’s pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.
3 December 2020 Harry Browne Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
