Keys to Happiness Dalai Lama
Happiness consists in the gratification of certain affections, appetites, passions, with objects which are by nature adapted to them.
Joseph ButlerThe first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl MarxWhen ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas MertonHappiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell HolmesBe happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. GladstoneOh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Gustave FlaubertNo human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham GreeneYour success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen KellerHappiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
George A. SheehanMoney is not happiness. Being able to pay your rent is happiness but a third season of being in hell would not have been worth it.
Jhonen VasquezBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Albert CamusYou know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
Vivien LeighTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaNow an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
Adam ClarkeHappiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale CarnegieI've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha WashingtonHappiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon HillThe summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
Desiderius ErasmusIf all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell