Happiness
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. Snow
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
Helen Keller
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.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, selfdenial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
George Sand
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.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin
True happiness ... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from friendship and conversation of a few selection companions.
Joseph Addison
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Baron de Montesquieu
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Anonymous
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
Horace
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
Anonymous
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James
