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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill on happiness

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza on happiness

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock on happiness

Happiness seems made to be shared.
Pierre Corneille on happiness

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot on happiness

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet on happiness

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Sam Levenson on happiness

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Austin O'Malley on happiness

Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler on happiness

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck on happiness

To buy happiness is to sell soul.
Douglas Horton on happiness

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden on happiness

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr on happiness

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Alphonse Karr on happiness

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling on happiness

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand on happiness

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Maurice Maeterlinck on happiness

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing on happiness

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Leon Kass on happiness

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on happiness