Happiness Quotes

• "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell!"
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Bardolph at II, ii)
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• "But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"
  By: William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Orlando at V, ii)
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• "No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself. [Lat., Non potest quisquam beate degere, qui se tantum intuetur, qui omnia ad utilitates suas convertit; alteri vivas oportet, si vis tibi vivere.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (XLVIII)
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• "The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach, but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it."
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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• "O mother, mother, what is bliss? O mother, what is bale? Without my William what were heaven, Or with him what were hell?"
  By: Sir Walter Scott, translation of a ballad of Burger's
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• "The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."
  By: Arthur Schopenhauer
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• "The will of a man is his happiness. [Ger., Des Menschen Wille, das ist sein Gluck.]"
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wallenstein's Lager (VII, 25)
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• "Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means in the way the future keeps its promises."
  By: George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Armandine Lucile Dupon Dudevant), Handsome Lawrence (ch. III)
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• "So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man."
  By: John Charles Ryle
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• "The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
  By: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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• "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
  By: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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• "A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."
  By: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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• "Happiness--a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
  By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• "Every one speaks of it, few know it."
  By: Madame Jeanne Marie Phlipon de La Platiere Roland
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• "Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master."
  By: Frederick William Robertson
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