Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. – Euripedes
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. – Francois Fenelon
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. – Louis D. Brandeis
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. – William E. Gladstone
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. – Anwar Sadat
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. – Elsie de Wolfe
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. – Harlan Coben
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. – Malcolm Muggeridge
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? – Jonathan Safran Foer
Happiness is always a coincidence. – Jose Bergamin
I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering. – Norodom Sihamoni
The gratification of desire is not happiness. – Daisaku Ikeda
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great. – Willa Cather
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. – Hugh Laurie
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. – Herman Hesse
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. – Franz Schubert
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
My life has run from misery to happiness. – Loretta Lynn
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. – Holbrook Jackson
