Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. – Thomas Paine
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. – Bertrand Russell
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. – Bertrand Russell
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. – William James
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. – Chuck Palahniuk
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. – Dante Alighieri
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. – Arthur Schopenhauer
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. – Denis Waitley
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
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. – Red Skelton
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. – Victor Hugo
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. – Karl Marx
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. – Victor Hugo
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. – Wayne Gretzky
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. – Bertrand Russell
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. – Immanuel Kant