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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps on happiness

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
Daniel Kahneman on happiness

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind.
Philo on happiness

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.
Ai Weiwei on happiness

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith on happiness

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
William Cobbett on happiness

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Jacques Prevert on happiness

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
Bethenny Frankel on happiness

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Paul Sweeney on happiness

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
Mary Astell on happiness

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
Evita Peron on happiness

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
Susan Faludi on happiness

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry Fielding on happiness

Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis on happiness

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
Herbert Read on happiness

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
Rosalia de Castro on happiness

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
Walter Annenberg on happiness

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
Norman Lear on happiness

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael on happiness

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
Chris Evans on happiness