The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. Thomas Huxley
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. Bryant H. McGill
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. Sivananda
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. Kanye West
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Samuel Johnson
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. Samuel Johnson
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. Samuel Johnson
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. Samuel Johnson
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Aeschylus
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. Horace
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. Miguel de Unamuno
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. Malcolm Muggeridge
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Marcel Proust
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. Peabo Bryson
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. Red Skelton
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. James Madison
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. Charles Caleb Colton
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne