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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do, something to love, and something
to hope for.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.


A man should always consider how much he has more
than he wants; and secondly, how much more unhappy
he might be than he really is.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.

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People spend a lifetime searching for happiness;
looking for peace. They chase idle dreams,
addictions, religions, even other people, hoping
to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony
is the only place they ever needed to search was
within.
--Ramona L. Anderson

All happiness depends on courage and work.
I have had many periods of wretchedness, but
with energy and above all with illusions, I
pulled through them all.
--Honorι de Balzac (1799—1850)
French journalist and writer.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others
cannot keep it from themselves.
--Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937)
Scottish writer and dramatist.

Happiness is not the end of life, character is.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister;
[brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher].

To live happily with other people one should
ask of them only what they can give.
--Tristan [Paul] Bernard (1866—1947)
French playwright, novelist, journalist, and lawyer.
_L'Enfant Prodigue du Vesinet_ [1921]

A merry heart doeth good
like a medicine.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 17:22

Happiness: n. An agreeable sensation arising
from contemplating the misery of others.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
{Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_}.

It's the songs ye sing, the smiles ye wear,
that's a'making the sun shine everywhere.
--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from
a single candle, and the life of the candle
will not be shortened. Happiness never
decreases by being shared.
--Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th—4th century B.C.)
Founder of Buddhism.

I am convinced we have a degree of delight, and that no
small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
_On the Sublime and Beautiful_,
in "The Harvard Classics" [1909-1914].

Can we ever have too much
of a good thing?
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605—1615]
Pt. 1 [1605], bk. 1, ch. 6.

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it
in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
--Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794)
French playwright and conversationalist.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot
at without result.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].
_The Malakand Field Force_ [1898]

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If you want happiness for a day - go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month - get married.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.
--Chinese Proverb


Make happy those who are near,
and those who are far will come.
--Chinese Proverb


A bird does not sing because it has an
answer...it sings because it has a song.
--Chinese Proverb

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But a perverse temper and fretful disposition make any state of life unhappy.
[Latin: Importunitas autem, et inhumanitas omni aetati molesta est.]
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
_De senectute_ [45—44 BC]

Happiness equals reality minus expectations.
--Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers

They must often change who would be
constant in happiness and wisdom.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
(Quoted in Oliver Goldsmith, "The Citizen of the World or,
Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London,
to his Friends in the East" [1762], [number 123].)

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
--George William Curtis (1824—1892)
American essayist, editor, and reformer.
In a letter from the collection _Lotus Eating_ [1852].

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Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers
and famous preservers of youthful looks.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.


Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen
nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds,
annual expenditure twenty pounds, ought and six, result
misery.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
Mr. Micawber, _David Copperfield_ [1850]

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His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!
--Emily Dickinson (1830—1886)
American poet.
"The Bee" in _Poems_ [1890]

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and
Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
_Lothair_ [1870], ch. 3

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of
circumstances, but rather a person with a certain
set of attitudes.
--Hugh Downs (1921— )
American televison host.
In Roy B. Zuck
_The Speaker's Quote Book: Over 4,500 Illustrations_, p. 185 [1997].

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say:
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
_Imitation of Horace_ [1685], bk. III, ode 29

Whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy
confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With
all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is
still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to
be happy.
--Max Ehrmann (1872—1945)
American lawyer.
"Desiderata" [1927]

If you want to live a happy life, tie it
to a goal, not to people or objects.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
In A. P. French's _Einstein: A Centenary Volume_ [1979].

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more
it is spent, the more it remains.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living
wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live
wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
--Epicurus (341—270 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
In _Lives of Eminent Philosophers_
Book X, section 140
Diogenes Laertius (fl. 2nd century).

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There is only one way to happiness and that
is to cease worrying about things which are
beyond the power of our will.
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.


The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on
external things.
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
In Dale Carnegie
_How To Stop Worrying And Start Living_, p. 270 [1981 ed.]

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The better part of happiness is to wish
to be what you are.
--Desiderius Erasmus (1469—1536)
Dutch humanist and theologian.
_The Praise of Folly_ [c.1511]


To know nothing is the happiest life.
--Desiderius Erasmus (1469—1536)
Dutch humanist and theologian.
_The Praise of Folly_ [c.1511]

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Happiness means quiet nerves.
--W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield]
(1880—1946) American vaudeville star and film actor.
In Robert Lewis Taylor
_W.C. Fields, His Follies and Fortunes_ [1949].

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
--Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle (1657—1757)
French author.

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Happiness depends more on the inward Disposition
of Mind than on the outward Circumstances.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [November 1757]


Human felicity is produced not so much by
great pieces of good fortune that seldom
happen, as by little advantages that occur
every day.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Autobiography_ [1798]

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -
It's growth, mental, financial, you name it.
--Harold S. Geneen (1910—1997)
English-born American communications executive.

Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in
driving them in front of oneself, in taking their
property, in savouring their despair, in outraging
their wives and daughters.
--Genghis Khan (1167—1227)
Mongolian warrior-ruler.
In Witold Rodzinski's _The Walled Kingdom: A History of China_ [1979].

The first and indispensable requisite of
happiness is a clear conscience.
--Edward Gibbon (1737—1794)
English historian.
_Memoirs of My Life and Writings_ [1796]
Alex Murray edition [1869]

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to
have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly
revere the unfathomable.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Proverbs in Prose_ [1819]

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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 (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.


Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes
incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and
it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
Follow some other object, and very possibly we
may find that we have caught happiness without
dreaming of it.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
[Entry written November 1852], in
_Passages from the American Notebooks_ [1868].

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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be
doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary
than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human
frame.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
_Table Talk_ [1821—1822] "On the Pleasure of Painting"


Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship,
and marriage, how little security have we when we
trust our happiness in the hands of others!
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
_Table Talk_ [1821—1822]

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Happiness in intelligent people is
the rarest thing I know.
--Ernest Hemingway (1889—1961)
American novelist.

If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which,
on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the
love of children. No circumstance can render this world
wholly a solitude to one who has this possession.
--Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823—1911)
American abolitionist and writer.

I care not much for gold or land;
Give me a mortgage here and there,
Some good bank-stock, some note of hand,
Or trifling railroad share,
I only ask that Fortune send
A *little* more than I shall spend.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
"Contentment" in
_The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_ [1858].

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction
that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather,
loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo (1802—1885)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
_Les Misιrables_ [1862], bk V, ch. 4

To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy
and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one
to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
--David Hume (1711—1776)
Scottish philosopher.

There is something curiously boring
about somebody else's happiness.
--Aldous Huxley (1894—1963)
English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}.

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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
--Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899)
American politician and orator know as "the great agnostic."


Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy
Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness
is the only good; that the time to be happy is now,
the place to be happy is here, and the way to be
happy is to make others so. This is enough for us.
In this belief we are content to live and die. If by
any possibility the existence of a power superior
to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated,
there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then,
let us stand erect.
--Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899)
American politician and orator know as "the great agnostic."
_The Gods_

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the
condition of life in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation and freedom in all just
pursuits.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].


The most uninformed mind with a healthy body
is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
In a letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. [6 July 1787].

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A waistcoat of broadcloth or of fustian is alike to an aching
heart, and we laugh no merrier on velvet cushions than we
did on wooden chairs. Often have I sighed in those low-
ceilinged rooms, yet disappointments have come neither
less nor lighter since I quitted them. Life works upon a
compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one
direction we lose in another. As our means increase, so do
our desires; and we ever stand midway between the two.
--Jerome K Jerome (1859—1927)
English novelist and playwright.
"On Furnished Apartments"

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.

The trick is not how much pain you feel—but how much
joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full
of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses,
excuses, excuses.
--Erica Jong (1942— )
American novelist.
_How To Save Your Own Life_ [1977]

Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give.
--William George Jordan (1864—1928)
American editor and essayist.
_Majesty of Calmness_ [1900], ch. 7 "The Royal Road to Happiness"

Happiness is not an ideal of
reason but of imagination.
--Immanuel Kant (1724—1804)
Prussian philosopher.
_Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics_ [1785]

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass
of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier,
the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel
that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal
heart.
--Nikos Kazantzakis (1883—1957)
Cretan civil servant and foreign correspondent.
_Zorba the Greek_ [1946]

One of the reasons that so many people who achieve
fame and fortune don't find happiness is because,
almost by definition, if you reach that high estate
you are going to find yourself surrounded by the
lowest hangers-on in the world. It is not that you
get cut off from the real people; you just get cut
off from the good people. And pretty soon, if you
don't watch out, you can start to turn into a creep
yourself.
--Billie Jean King (1943— )
American professional tennis player.
_Billie Jean_ [1982]

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Happiness and misery depend as much
on temperament as on fortune.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales_


Few things are needed to make a wise man happy;
nothing can make a fool content; that is why most
men are miserable.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.

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This is my motto: Contented with little, yet
wishing for more.
--Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
English essayist.

Whoever has really seen Russia will find himself content to live anywhere else.
It is always good to know that a society exists where no happiness is possible
because, by a law of nature, man cannot be happy unless he is free.
--Astolphe Louis Leonard, Marquis de Custine (1790—1857)
French writer, playwright, poet and traveler.
_La Russia en 1839_ "Peterhof, July 23, 1839"

Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good
but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.
--Anita Loos (1893—1981)
American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter.
_Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ [1925]

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is
all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good
book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog
to go somewhere and read the book, I might have
a little fun!
--Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895—1977)
American film comedian.

Puritanism-- The haunting fear that someone,
somewhere, may be happy.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
"Sententiae" in _The Vintage Mencken_ [1955]

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy:
the strange error that our perfection depends
on the thoughts and opinions and applause of
other men!
--Thomas Merton (1915—1968)
American Trappist monk and author.

Ask yourself whether you are happy,
and you cease to be so.
--John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)
English philosopher and social reformer.
_Autobiography_ [1873], ch. 5

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know
that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and
to know why and how . . . and still be happy, be happy in
the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness,
that is bliss.
--Henry Miller (1891—1980)
American novelist and essayist.
_The Colossus of Maroussi_ [1941], pt. 1

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane
by those who could not hear the music.
--Angela Monet

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily
accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other
people, and this is always difficult, for we believe
others to be happier than they are.
--Baron de Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat) (1689—1755)
French philosopher, jurist, and satirist.

There is only one way to achieve happiness
on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have a clear conscience,
or none at all.
--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
"Interoffice Memorandum" in
_I'm a Stranger Here Myself_ [1938]

But it's alright now. I've learned my lesson well.
You see, you can't please everyone, so you've
got to please yourself.
--Ricky Nelson [Eric Hilliard Nelson]
(1940—1985)
American singer and TV actor.
"Garden Party" [1972 song]

Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping
across the country on a clear, frosty morning with a
good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to
enjoy life.
--Annie Oakley [Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee]
(1860—1926) American sharpshooter.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
--James Oppenheim (1882—1932)
Poet and novelist.

Cheque enclosed are the two most beautiful
words in the English language.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting
battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in
itself a victory.
--Norman Vincent Peale (1898—1993)
American preacher and author.

Happiness is a way-station between
too little and too much.
--Channing Pollack (1880—1946)
American playwright, dramatist, and critic.
"Mr. Moneypenny" [1928]

Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
"Ode on Solitude"

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through
a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of
its original ray; nay, when it strikes a kindred
heart, like the converged light upon a mirror,
it reflects itself with redoubled brightness.
It is not perfected until it is shared.
--Jane Porter (1776—1850)
Scottish novelist.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy,
they are the charming gardeners who make our
souls blossom.
--Marcel Proust (1871—1922)
French novelist.

Whatever it is, if it doesn't make you happy, walk
away, give it away to someone else who wants it.
Let it be THEIR next dream; let it flee from you.
You're emptying out your limitations when you do
that. Then you have ROOM to grow, to allow
magnificent things to fill the vacuum of those
seemingly empty places. When you hold onto
yesterday, when you hold onto dead and dying
adventures, you have no room in your box for
greatness.
--Ramtha

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,
and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
--Agnes Repplier (1855—1950)
American author.

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There can be no universal panacea for happiness
which is obvious to anyone who has studied, as
I have, the root causes of happiness and its
opposite. Happiness is a state which is created
within us by a very large and very varied number
of factors. One man is happy with nothing less
than a luxurious mansion and estate and a fleet
of fast cars; another man is happy in a monk's
cell with the minimum requirements of life. It
would seem, therefore, that it is not what we
actually possess which provides us with
happiness, but our reactions to what we possess.
The secret of happiness, like the kingdom of
heaven, must be within us, and the key to it is
our attitude towards life and especially towards
our personal life.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.


I believe four ingredients are necessary for
happiness: health, warm personal relations,
sufficient means to keep you from want,
and successful work.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.
Tommy Robbins interview "Redbook" [September 1964].


The secret to happiness is to face the
fact that the world is horrible.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.


I've made an odd discovery. Everytime I talk to
a genius I feel quite sure that joy and happiness
is no longer a possibility. Yet, when I talk with
my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite; joy
and happiness is just around the corner.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.

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Happy is he who learns to bear
what he cannot change!
--Friedrich von Schiller (1759—1805)
German poet, historian, and dramatist.

The two foes of human happiness
are pain and boredom.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
--Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965)
Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
--Scottish Proverb

Pleasure comes with the fulfilment of desire—getting what you
want and wanting what you get. Happiness comes with the
fulfilment of the person. And much of our moral confusion
comes from the fact that we no longer know what happiness
is, nor how to obtain it.
--Roger Scruton (1944— )
British writer and philosopher.
_The Good Life_ [1998]

True happiness is to understand our duties toward
God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious
dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves
with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied
with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.

O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through
another man's eyes!
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_As You Like It_ [1599]

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Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll
never stop to trouble about whether he's happy
or not.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925.
"Captain Brassbound's Conversion" [1901]


But a lifetime of happiness! No one alive
could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925.
_Man and Superman_ [1903]

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Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make
prudence a habit and reckless profligacy will become revolting . . .
Even happiness itself can become habitual. There is a habit of
looking at the bright side of things, also of looking at the dark
side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best
side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds
a year . . . . And to bring up men and women with a genial nature
of this sort, a good temper, and a happy frame of mind, is perhaps
of even more importance, in many cases, than to perfect them in
much knowledge and many accomplishments.
--Samuel Smiles (1812—1904)
Scottish author.

What can be added to the happiness of the man
who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a
clear conscience?
--Adam Smith (1723—1790)
Scottish economist.
_The Theory of Moral Sentiments_ [1759]

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get
what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the
wisest of mankind achieve the second.
--Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946)
American-born man of letters.
_Afterthoughts_ [1931]

All mankind are happier for having been happy, so
that if you make them happy now, you make them
happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
--Sydney Smith (1771—1845)
English clergyman and essayist,
in 1802 cofounded "The Edinburgh Review."

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed
by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to
children, and by children to adults.
--Thomas Szasz (1920— )
American psychiatrist.
_The Second Sin_ [1973], "Emotions"

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Do not let your peace depend on what people say of
you, for whether they speak good or ill of you makes
no difference to what you are.

True peace and joy is to be found in Me alone.
He who is neither anxious to please nor afraid
to displease men enjoys true peace.

--Thomas a' Kempis (1380—1471)
German ascetical writer.
_The Imitation of Christ_ [c. 1420],
Book 3, Chapter 28: "Against Slander"

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That which makes people dissatisfied with their
condition is the chimerical idea they form of the
happiness of others.
--James Thomson (1700—1748)
Scottish poet.

That man is the richest whose pleasures
are the cheapest.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Journal_ [1906], "March 11, 1856"
[quoting Thomas Paine.]

The secret of happiness is freedom.
The secret of freedom is courage.
--Thucydides (c.460—c.400 B.C.)
Greek historian of Athens.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself, it's only a contrast
with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon
as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast
dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have
to get something fresh.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends
on our disposition and not our circumstances.
--Martha Washington (1731—1802)
The first First Lady of the U.S..

Some cause happiness wherever they
go; others, whenever they go.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.

Happy days are here again,
The skies above are clear again.
Let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy days are here again!
--Jack Yellen (1892—1991)
Polish-born American songwriter.
"Happy Days are Here Again"
from the musical comedy
_Chasing Rainbows_ [1929]

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Hagar to hermit monk on top of icy mountain: What
is the secret to happiness and long life?
Nearly frozen hermit: Chastity, poverty, self-sacrifice
and abstinence.
Hagar: Is there someone else up here I can talk too?
--Dik Browne, Hagar the Horrible strip

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beatitude (noun)
1. The perfect happiness and inner peace supposed
to be enjoyed by the soul in heaven.
2. Extreme happiness and serenity, bliss

blithe (adjective) [bLIdh]
Joyous, spiritedly if not giddily happy; happy to
the point of ignoring reality.

Cockaigne (noun) [kκ-'keyn or kah-'keyn]
Paradise, utopia, an imaginary land of ease
and luxurious living.

coruscate [KOR-uh-skayt], intransitive verb:
1. To give off or reflect bright beams or flashes of
light; to sparkle.
2. To exhibit brilliant, sparkling technique or style.

jovial [JOH-vee-uhl], adjective:
Merry; joyous; jolly; characterized by mirth or jollity.


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