Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. John Stuart Mill on happiness
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is. Alanis Morissette on happiness
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. John Dewey on happiness
The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity. Olivia Goldsmith on happiness
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. Arthur Rimbaud on happiness
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. Dionne Warwick on happiness
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. Bernard Meltzer on happiness
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here. James Hillman on happiness
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. Gustave Flaubert on happiness
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. Gustave Flaubert on happiness
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. Maxwell Maltz on happiness
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper on happiness
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. Laurence Sterne on happiness
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on happiness
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. Irving Babbitt on happiness
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. Maurice Maeterlinck on happiness
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal. Jon Huntsman, Jr. on happiness
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being. Red Skelton on happiness
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. Douglas Horton on happiness
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. Jane Porter on happiness