The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. – Benjamin Disraeli
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. – Mary Wollstonecraft
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. – Prem Rawat
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. – Robert Green Ingersoll
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. – Gustave Flaubert
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. – Anton Chekhov
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. – Samuel Johnson
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. – Anthony Hopkins
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. – Charles Caleb Colton
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. – Joan Rivers
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. – W. Somerset Maugham
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. – Christian Nestell Bovee
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. – Marquis de Sade
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. – Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. – George A. Sheehan
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. – Virginia Woolf
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. – Kin Hubbard
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. – John Stuart Mill
