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3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

3 December 2020 Stefano Gabbana

To me, flowers are happiness.

3 December 2020 Anita Baker

Completeness? Happiness? These words don’t come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

3 December 2020 Henry Ford

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

3 December 2020 Red Skelton

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Bentham

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

3 December 2020 Cab Calloway

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody’s interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

3 December 2020 Maxwell Maltz

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

3 December 2020 Emmylou Harris

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they – any parent hopes for their child.

3 December 2020 Wilbur Smith

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn’t want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith – I’ve had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I’d like to be J. K. Rowling, but I’ll settle for second best.

3 December 2020 David Brainerd

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

3 December 2020 David O. McKay

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

3 December 2020 Philip Sidney

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

3 December 2020 George A. Sheehan

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

3 December 2020 Olivia Wilde

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

3 December 2020 Maurice Maeterlinck

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

3 December 2020 Chandler Massey

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

3 December 2020 George Santayana

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

3 December 2020 Merrill Markoe

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

3 December 2020 Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

3 December 2020 Antonio Gala

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

3 December 2020 Eric Ripert

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it’s not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

3 December 2020 Kaya Scodelario

Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market – I have so many vintage pieces from there it’s unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.

3 December 2020 James Hillman

Just stop for a minute and you’ll realize you’re happy just being. I think it’s the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it’s right here.

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