God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. Aldous Huxley
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. Aeschylus
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle. George Burns
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. Bertrand Russell
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. Bertrand Russell
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. Suze Orman
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. Sigmund Freud
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Red Skelton
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. Tom Wilson
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo