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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin on happiness

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Marquis de Sade on happiness

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman on happiness

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
George A. Sheehan on happiness

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf on happiness

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard on happiness

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill on happiness

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff on happiness

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron on happiness

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon on happiness

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson on happiness

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen on happiness

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan on happiness

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on happiness

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo Derek on happiness

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus on happiness

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift on happiness

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre Maurois on happiness

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau on happiness

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes on happiness