3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
3 December 2020 K. D. Lang Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
3 December 2020 Letty Cottin Pogrebin Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
3 December 2020 Sylvia Kristel I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
3 December 2020 J. Donald Walters The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
3 December 2020 Omar Bongo The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.
3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
3 December 2020 Sarah Vowell While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
3 December 2020 Taraji P. Henson It’s up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you’re not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can’t rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
3 December 2020 Saint Augustine Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
3 December 2020 Giraldus Cambrensis Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
3 December 2020 Logan P. Smith Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
3 December 2020 Robert Green Ingersoll My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
3 December 2020 John Leguizamo Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don’t for a long time.
3 December 2020 Theodore Isaac Rubin Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
3 December 2020 Henry Van Dyke Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
