Happiness Quotes

• "Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "Upon the road to Romany It's stay, friend, stay! There's lots o' love and lots o' time To linger on the way; Poppies for the twilight, Roses for the noon, It's happy goes as lucky goes, To Romany in June."
  By: Wallace Irwin, From Romany to Rome
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• "Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven."
  By: Washington Irving
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• "I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, There was music within and a song, And echoes did feed on the sweetness, repeating it long. I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, There was music that played itself out in aeolian notes: Then was heard, as a far-away bell at long intervals tolled."
  By: Jean Ingelow
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• "Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and you rob him of his happiness."
  By: Henrik Ibsen
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• "That Action is best which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions misery."
  By: Francis Hutcheson, the Elder, Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (treatise II, sec. 3)
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• "When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness."
  By: David Hume
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• "When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself--nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations."
  By: Wilhelm von Humboldt
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• "There are no rules for felicity."
  By: Victor Hugo
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• "Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it."
  By: Arsene Houssaye
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• "Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy. [Lat., Fuge magna, licet sub paupere tecto Reges et regum vita procurrere amicos.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 10, 32)
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• "You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death. [Lat., Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui Deorum Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque callet pauperiem pati, Pejusque leto flagitium timet.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (IX, bk. 4, 9, 45)
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• "You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it on all."
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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• "And there is ev'n a happiness That makes the heart afraid."
  By: Thomas Hood, Ode to Melancholy
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• "Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."
  By: Napoleon Hill
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• "The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt."
  By: John Heywood, Be Merry Friends
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