The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. George Eliot
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. Joan Rivers
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. Maxwell Maltz
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. Suze Orman
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. W. Somerset Maugham
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. George Eliot
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. George Eliot
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Arthur Schopenhauer
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Christian Nestell Bovee
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Honore de Balzac
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. John Ruskin
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. Marquis de Sade
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George A. Sheehan
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Virginia Woolf
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill