3 December 2020 Bryant McGill The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
3 December 2020 Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
3 December 2020 Harry Harrison The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
3 December 2020 Justin Long If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I’ve hit the lottery.
3 December 2020 Evita Peron If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
3 December 2020 Meir Kahane Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
3 December 2020 Chris Evans I love acting. It’s my playground, it let’s me explore. But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.
3 December 2020 Ogden Nash The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
3 December 2020 Robert Burton Worldly wealth is the Devil’s bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
3 December 2020 Freya Stark There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
3 December 2020 Doug Larson The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
3 December 2020 Jose Marti Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
3 December 2020 Chanakya The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
3 December 2020 Paul Sweeney How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
3 December 2020 Conor Oberst Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
3 December 2020 Carmen Electra People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to ‘The Art of Happiness’ by the Dalai Lama.
3 December 2020 George Sand Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
3 December 2020 Maria Montessori One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
