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Happiness

I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. – Queen Victoria

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. – K. D. Lang

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. – Fiona Shaw

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. – Walter Savage Landor

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. – Philip Kaufman

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important. – Daniel Kahneman

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind. – Philo

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. – Alexander Smith

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. – William Cobbett

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. – Evita Peron

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. – Henry Fielding

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. – Herbert Read

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. – Rosalia de Castro

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies. – Walter Annenberg

But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting. – Chris Evans

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. – Tryon Edwards

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny. – Daniel Johns

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. – Wendell Willkie

There is even a happiness – that makes the heart afraid. – Thomas Hood

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas