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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
Jonathan Edwards on happiness

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham on happiness

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
George A. Smith on happiness

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse on happiness

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Charles Baudelaire on happiness

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Henry Drummond on happiness

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Ludwig van Beethoven on happiness

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark on happiness

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
John Mayer on happiness

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko on happiness

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Billy Wilder on happiness

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy on happiness

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman on happiness

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters on happiness

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison on happiness

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
Quentin Crisp on happiness

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
Laura Schlessinger on happiness

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
Dennis Prager on happiness

But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Stephen Fry on happiness

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Abu Bakr on happiness