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Happiness

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. – William Hall

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. – Thomas Bulfinch

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation. – Amy Lowell

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work. – Joseph Barbara

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. – John Mason Good

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. – James Freeman Clarke

To me, flowers are happiness. – Stefano Gabbana

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make. – Jillian Michaels

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. – August Strindberg

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life. – Daniel Kahneman

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – Margaret Oliphant

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus. – Ioan Gruffudd

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. – Philip Sidney

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. – Henry James Sumner Maine

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others. – Bar Refaeli

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. – Giraldus Cambrensis

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men. – Francis Wright

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. – James Thomson

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. – Nassau William Senior

I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia. – Peter MacKay