To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

She'll be bringing happiness to others.

Terry Whitesell

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

William Dean Howells

The downfall of the Dracula of the century is a day of happiness for every Palestinian and every Muslim.

Abu Abir

It is shocking to find out what I was giving her wasn't happiness, but a gluten high.

Teresa Chimiak

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

Fontenelle

If there is something else you might find happiness in, do that. If you're going to dance, you have to throw yourself into it.

Paige Price

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Bette Davis

Christmas is a family time so it would be nice to bring a little bit of happiness to them and show that they are not forgotten at home.

Katherine Jenkins

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Olympia Brown

When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others' lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.

Arthur Dobrin

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark

That's when happiness became an assumed entitlement of all human beings. Unfortunately, that puts a great deal of pressure on us.

Darrin Mcmahon

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Wayne Gretzky

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Alphonse Karr

The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical.

Ruth Benedict

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

William Law

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Lord Byron

For me, the red if so important this time. The red is so exciting. It gives us light, happiness and femininity.

Donatella Girombelli

It's brought so much happiness to so, so many people.

Yvonne Beauvais

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

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Sir Robert Baden powell

This will be triumph! this will be happiness! yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

Joanna Baillie

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.

Grenville Kleiser

The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it.

Richard Steele, Sr.

I shall always equate a spontaneous song with a complete moment of happiness...

Lynne Caiafa

For us it is a very great happiness to be able to represent our country in Germany 2006 and to make happy a country that has trusted in us and has always given us the force to obtain this feat.

Jared Borgetti

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Arthur Rubinstein

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

Francis Hutcheson

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

Agnes Martin

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori

The dog's happiness comes first.

Greg Forte

Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness.

Harry F. Banks

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.

Wilhelm Stekel

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.

William Bennett

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The right to happiness is fundamental.

Anna Pavlova

Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Hobart Brown

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison

The secret of happiness is to be happy already.

Julian Barnes

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Henry Drummond

When a man forgets his ideals, he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

John Oliver Hobbes

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

G. Wilhelm Leibniz

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara De Angelis

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Julia Roberts

I'm on my way to happiness. Where I can find some peace and rest.

Peter Tosh

This is great, especially after struggling the last two years. It's happiness and relief all in one.

Joe Bergamini

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.

Alexander Humboldt

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

Debbi Fields

When she got the fries she'd squeal with happiness.

Mark Chimiak

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Norodom Sihamoni

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Douglas Pagels

No, never. I never thought on those lines. I was only thinking of the children and their happiness.

Javed Miandad

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Jacques Prevert

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Freddie Mercury

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feather

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Nicholas Chamfort

Happiness, noun. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Lilian Eichler Watson

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Henny Youngman

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

Channing Pollock

Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

Houssaye

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

William Maxwell

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Be there next time happiness visits you.

Mariana Fulger

The happiness knows no bounds.

Feng Sheng

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Hugh Walpole, Sr.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Thomas Traherne

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

Tom Wilson

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Dr. Linus Pauling

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

Margaret Lindsey

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

The team is hurt, but we have a great desire to win. There is certainly not a lot of happiness on this team after what happened to us in the last two games, but I'm always an optimist.

Gianluigi Buffon

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

NOTHING contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

David Ricardo

But Pride and Happiness are always the same distance from our hands.

The White Stripes

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

James Freeman Clarke

Expect no greater happiness in Eternity, than to rejoice in God.

Benjamin Whichcote

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Vittorio Alfieri

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

Islom Karimov

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.

Dan Brown

Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Prem Rawal

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Bernard Meltzer

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Leigh Hunt

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

Margaret Oliphant

A good education is another name for happiness.

Ann Plato

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

Islom Karimov

One of the best parts of my job is hearing a customer's happiness after a big win. This is a day that John A. will never forget and I am glad that BetGameDay.com is a big part of that.

John Olsen

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam M. Smith

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Julian Casablancas

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

Once you subscribe, our interest is purely your happiness.

Reed Hastings

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

It's a controlled happiness. One of my concerns was the defense and it's been erratic.

Dave Farr

To have peace in the world, and to live with happiness and pick up the good things and the bad things ... everybody should be good with everyone.

Pascal Imbert

With happiness and determination, but without confrontation with the security forces.

Bentzi Lieberman

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Joyce Grenfell

I'm so distraught, it's breaking my heart. What happened to his civil rights? Where is his pursuit of happiness?

Joanne Pratt

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Louis Binstock

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

H. L. Mencken

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

William E. Gladstone

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

Islom Karimov

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.

Olivia Goldsmith

Julianne 'Jules' Potter: This is my one chance at happiness. I have to be ruthless!

My Best Friend's Wedding

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Anni frid Lyngstad

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Frank Mccourt

In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped.

Jonathan Aitken

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Red Skelton

It brings back emotions — how down we were. At the same time, there's happiness. There's some closure, because it's been a mystery.

Don Payne

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Red Skelton

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle

So, though I'll greet an agreement with happiness, ... I won't drop my guard.

Gershom Gorenberg

Happiness, laughter and joy abound,when friends, family, and lovers are around.

Amy Davis

You have my heart,send me a little word,that I may gounto her and take her handssaying 'Accept all happiness from me'.

Angie Bjorklund

Happiness and joy always eludes a hypocrite.

Sam Veda

You'll never know the joy, the happiness that these guys showed today.

Jim Jacobs

Happiness is a state of defiance.

The Dispatch

We're celebrating life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Jennifer Robertson

I learned very early on to try to never let your fans down. It is the fans that have given me a lot of my happiness.

Johnny Ramone

But be, as you have been, my happiness...

Randall Jarrell

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

Genghis Khan

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

Joseph Addison

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Hasidic Proverb

Happiness is a Chinese meal; sorrow is a nourishment forever.

Carolyn Kizer

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Oswald Chambers

Getting out of marriage won't automatically make anything better. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Tina B. Tessina

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George Sheehan

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

Erich Fromm

Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Washington Irving

I have great integrity with my congregation, ... I would never take their money and use them to build my own personal happiness.

Eddie Long

We are facing the second half of the season with the greatest desire to give to our fans and our followers triumphs and happiness.

Emilio Butragueno

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Euripedes

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

E. V. Lucas

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Elsa Schiaparelli

'Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are aflickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks…'.

Eugenio Montale

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

I've got no tears of disappointment from tonight. But I don't have any tears of happiness either.

Erika Holst

I wish them all health and happiness.

Edwina Currie