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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
Robert Orben
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
Winifred Holtby
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
James Matthew Barrie
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
Thucydides
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson
One of the advantages of not being happy is that you can wish for happiness.
Miguel de Unamuno
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
George Santayana
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Stendhal
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
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.
Vauvenargues, Marquis de
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard