happiness quotes

• There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. (George Sand) [happiness/life/love]
• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. (William Morris) [happiness/interest/life]
• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. (Bertrand Russell) [love/happiness]
• To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. (Bertrand Russell) [people/happiness]
• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. (Andre Maurois) [happiness/consolation/fool]
• The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. (Andre Maurois) [recipe/happiness/meditation/past]
• The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin) [people/right/happiness]
• Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. (Robert Frost) [happiness]
• Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. (Ernest Hemingway) [happiness/people/thing]
• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana) [knowledge/happiness]
• Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. (Mark Twain) [happiness]
• There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. (Henry Ford) [joy/happiness]
• Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. (Richard Bach) [wish/happiness]
• If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. (Richard Bach) [happiness/problem]
• For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [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. (Henry Fielding) [teach/virtue/happiness]
• The happiness of society is the end of government. (John Adams) [happiness/society/government]
• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Joseph Addison) [happiness]
• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. (Joseph Addison) [happiness/misfortune]
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison) [happiness/life/love]
• Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. (Joseph Addison) [virtue/happiness/willpower]
• Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. (Greg Anderson) [thing/change/happiness/attention]
• When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions. (Hannah Arendt) [wealth/happiness/speech]
• If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. ( Aristotle) [happiness/activity]
• Happiness is activity. ( Aristotle) [happiness/activity]
• Happiness depends upon ourselves. ( Aristotle) [happiness]
• Happiness is a sort of action. ( Aristotle) [happiness/action]
• Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness... (Richard Bach) [wish/happiness]
• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. (Francis Bacon) [happiness/wisdom/fool]
• Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. (Georges Bataille) [pleasure/happiness]
• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. (Walter Benjamin) [happiness/share/beauty/thing]

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