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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan on happiness

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey on happiness

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer on happiness

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats on happiness

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau on happiness

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 Isaac Rubin on happiness

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on happiness

Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony on happiness

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on happiness

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw on happiness

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso on happiness

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel on happiness

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell on happiness

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on happiness

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie on happiness

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya on happiness

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
Nelson Mandela on happiness

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert Hubbard on happiness

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 on happiness

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
Ellen DeGeneres on happiness