The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in anothers keeping . – Dale Carnegie
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing anothers happiness. – Aeschylus
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other peoples happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. – Bertrand Russell
A smile is happiness youll find right under your nose. – Tom Wilson
Lifes greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. – Victor Hugo
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other peoples happiness. – Aldous Huxley
I do believe that if you havent learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. – Nana Mouskouri
When youre passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. – Debra Messing
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana
The white mans happiness cannot be purchased by the black mans misery. – Frederick Douglass
When youre happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and thats a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. – Suze Orman
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones self to do without it. – George Eliot
A womans heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. – George Eliot
Mans only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. – John Ruskin
Money cant buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. – Spike Milligan
Whoever said money cant buy happiness simply didnt know where to go shopping. – Bo Derek
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that Im not even sure we can draw lessons from them. – P. J. ORourke
I refuse to accept other peoples ideas of happiness for me. As if theres a one size fits all standard for happiness. – Kanye West
Every day is a new day, and youll never be able to find happiness if you dont move on. – Carrie Underwood
Ones work usually occupies more than half of ones waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. – Bo Bennett