Top Happiness Quotes
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.
James Van Der Zee
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov
All Happiness Quotes
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis 
65% of people like this quote
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
George A. Smith 
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Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
Meir Kahane 
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal 
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The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
William Godwin 
62% of people like this quote
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Herman Hesse 
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
Francois Fenelon 
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