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  • Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
    * Aristotle


  • Happiness depends upon ourselves.
    * Aristotle


  • Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
    * St. Augustine


  • He who binds to himself a joy
    Does the winged life destroy;
    But he who kisses the joy as it files
    Lives in eternity's sun rise.
    * William Blake


  • You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
    * Albert Camus


  • Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
    * Charles Caleb Colton


  • Of mortals there is no one who is happy.
    If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps
    Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
    * Euripedes


  • A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
    * Fontenelle


  • What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
    * Sigmund Freud


  • No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
    * Thomas Fuller


  • We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
    * Samuel Johnson


  • No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
    * Helen Keller


  • When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
    * Helen Keller


  • it is better to be happy
    for a moment
    and be burned up with beauty
    than to live a long time
    and be bored all the while
    * Don Marquis


  • We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
    * Friedrich Nietzsche


  • Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
    * Jacques Prévert


  • The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
    * Publilius Syrus


  • Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
    * Bertrand Russell


  • Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
    * Bertrand Russell


  • A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
    * George Santayana


  • There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one--keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
    * Mark Twain


  • When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
    * E. B. White