The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . Dale Carnegie on happiness
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell on happiness
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky on happiness
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. Bertrand Russell on happiness
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher on happiness
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. William James on happiness
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo on happiness
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 on happiness
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk on happiness
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri on happiness
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus on happiness
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust on happiness
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 on happiness
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy on happiness
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 on happiness
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 on happiness
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 on happiness
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. Bertrand Russell on happiness
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley on happiness
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 on happiness