Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Candida (1898) act 1
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Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
Author: Werner Erhard
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Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways we approve.
Author: Robert Lynd
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet.
Author: James Oppenheim
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: Journal, January 21, 1838
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Our happiness is greatest when we contribute most to the happiness of others.
Author: Harriet Shepard
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Author: Samuel Goldwyn
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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Author: Hugh Downs
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Happiness in not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
Author: Margaret Lee Runbeck
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: Maxims
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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