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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Anthony Trollope on happiness

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton Wilder on happiness

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith on happiness

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
Hugh Laurie on happiness

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
Hugh Laurie on happiness

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
Dennis Prager on happiness

Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.
John Harrigan on happiness

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli on happiness

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
Lillie Langtry on happiness

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Euripedes on happiness

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
Francois Fenelon on happiness

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis on happiness

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
William E. Gladstone on happiness

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
Anwar Sadat on happiness

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Elsie de Wolfe on happiness

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Harlan Coben on happiness

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
Nick Cave on happiness

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Malcolm Muggeridge on happiness

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
Jonathan Safran Foer on happiness

Happiness is always a coincidence.
Jose Bergamin on happiness