In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. Frederick Douglass
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. Bryant H. McGill
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Zhuangzi
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Benjamin Disraeli
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. Prem Rawat
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. Anton Chekhov
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. Samuel Johnson
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. Anthony Hopkins
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Charles Caleb Colton
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides