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- 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
- We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
- Mary Oliver on Happiness
- We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
- Jillian Michaels on Happiness
- We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
- Mary Gordon on Happiness
- We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
- Charlie Chaplin on Happiness
- We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
- Maxwell Maltz on Happiness
- 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 on Happiness
- We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
- Walter Savage Landor on Happiness
- We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
- Bernard Loiseau on Happiness
- We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.
- We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
- Honore De Balzac on Happiness
- We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Happiness
- We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
- We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
- Henry Knox on Happiness
- We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- George Bernard Shaw on Happiness
- We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
- Francis Wright on Happiness
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson on Happiness
- We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
- Ethel Percy Andrus on Happiness
- 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 on Happiness
- We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
- Park Geun-hye on Happiness
- We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
- Pierre Corneille on Happiness
- We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
- Maurice Maeterlinck on Happiness
- We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.
- Kenichi Fukui on Happiness
- We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
- Alanis Morissette on Happiness
- We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
- Emma Thompson on Happiness
- Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford on Happiness
- Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
- James K. Polk on Happiness
- Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
- Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
- Andy Grammer on Happiness
- What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
- Adam Smith on Happiness
- What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Happiness
- What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
- Margaret Oliphant on Happiness
- What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
- Bernard Cornwell on Happiness
- What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
- Chris Evans on Happiness
- What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?
- Richard Owen Cambridge on Happiness
- What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
- Sigmund Freud on Happiness
- What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
- Leo Buscaglia on Happiness
- What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
- Andre Gide on Happiness
- What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
- Henny Youngman on Happiness
- When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
- When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
- Anna Pavlova on Happiness
- When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- Thomas Merton on Happiness
- When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
- Thornton Wilder on Happiness
- When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.
- Pia Toscano on Happiness
- When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
- When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.
- When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
- Lynn Johnston on Happiness
- When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
- George Porter on Happiness
- When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
- When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
- Arthur Ashe on Happiness
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