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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 not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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