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 on happiness
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 on happiness
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 on happiness
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo on happiness
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. Tom Wilson on happiness
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx on happiness
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo on happiness
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. Aldous Huxley on happiness
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Nana Mouskouri on happiness
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero on happiness
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. Victor Hugo on happiness
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. William James on happiness
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. Wayne Gretzky on happiness
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. Bertrand Russell on happiness
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant on happiness
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. Maria Montessori on happiness
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. George Orwell on happiness
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud on happiness
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell on happiness