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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
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
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
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 does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore I. Rubin
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Joseph Butler
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
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
Helen Keller
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick
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
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
Douglas Pagels
True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.
Joseph Addison
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz
