3 December 2020 Pierre Corneille We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
3 December 2020 Margaret Oliphant What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
3 December 2020 Robert Wyatt It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Muggeridge The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
3 December 2020 Joyce Grenfell There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
3 December 2020 Islom Karimov I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
3 December 2020 Henry Ford Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
3 December 2020 Nassau William Senior With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
3 December 2020 Aeschylus And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
3 December 2020 Sarah Orne Jewett It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one’s uses.
3 December 2020 Franz Schubert You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
3 December 2020 Norodom Sihamoni I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
3 December 2020 Guy Laliberte Inside every adult there’s still a child that lingers. We’re happiness merchants – giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
3 December 2020 Loretta Swit The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We’re all entitled to have the best we can.
3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
3 December 2020 Herman Hesse This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
