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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Written by Oscar Wilde
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
Written by John Dewey
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Written by Leo Rosten
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Written by Joseph Roux
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Written by Sophocles
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Written by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Written by Alphonse Karr
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Written by Ingrid Bergman
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Written by Andre Gide
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Written by Bertrand Russell
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Written by Paul Sweeney
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Written by Samuel Johnson
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Written by Desiderius Erasmus
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Written by Confucius
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Written by Bertrand Russell
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.
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Written by John Barrymore
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Written by Kin Hubbard
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Written by Saint Augustine
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Written by Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Written by Sydney J. Harris
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Written by Immanuel Kant
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Written by Sigmund Freud
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
Written by V. S. Pritchett
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Written by Eric Hoffer
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Written by Doug Larson
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Written by Joseph Roux
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Written by Booth Tarkington
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Written by Ernest Dimnet

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