To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert on happiness
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. Anton Chekhov on happiness
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison on happiness
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. Samuel Johnson on happiness
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. Anthony Hopkins on happiness
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Charles Caleb Colton on happiness
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides on happiness
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. George Eliot on happiness
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. Joan Rivers on happiness
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. Maxwell Maltz on happiness
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. Suze Orman on happiness
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. W. Somerset Maugham on happiness
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. George Eliot on happiness
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. George Eliot on happiness
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Arthur Schopenhauer on happiness
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh on happiness
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks on happiness
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Christian Nestell Bovee on happiness
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on happiness
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Honore de Balzac on happiness