A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. – Alexander Alekhine
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. – Milan Kundera
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. – Sidney Sheldon
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. – Arthur Ashe
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. – Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. – Storm Jameson
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. – Peter McWilliams
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves – that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness. – Giorgio Armani
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. – Jeremy Bentham
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. – Hugo Black
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. – Henry St. John
I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness. – Brittany Murphy
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
For me, love is happiness and inspiration. – Leona Lewis
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. – Thor Heyerdahl
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. – John Belushi
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. – Pierre de Coubertin
