3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence So long as you don’t feel life’s paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness.
3 December 2020 Julia Ward Howe I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
3 December 2020 Charisma Carpenter I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it’s kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that’s it.
3 December 2020 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
3 December 2020 Suge Knight I’m passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin’ to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
3 December 2020 George Porter It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
3 December 2020 Robert Baden-Powell The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
3 December 2020 George Eliot A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
3 December 2020 Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
3 December 2020 Barry Took It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
3 December 2020 Storm Jameson Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
3 December 2020 Fanny Burney Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
3 December 2020 Maurice Maeterlinck Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
3 December 2020 Herman Hesse Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
3 December 2020 Charles Van Doren The last part, the part you’re now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
3 December 2020 Thornton Wilder When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
3 December 2020 Arizona Muse I don’t know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it’s a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn’t make it my trademark on purpose.
3 December 2020 Richard Eyre I envy the happiness of others… I envy the sense of belonging… I seem always to be remaking myself.
3 December 2020 Peabo Bryson Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
3 December 2020 John Buchanan Robinson According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.
3 December 2020 Clara Schumann My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
