Home » Happiness Happiness 1 To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. Victor Hugo Happiness, Happy, Necessary Add to Collection 2 The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo Life, Happiness, Loved Add to Collection 3 Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo Happiness, Children, Men Add to Collection 4 Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo Life, Happiness, Greatest Add to Collection 5 The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo Life, Love, Happiness Add to Collection 6 Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. William James Happiness, Action, May Add to Collection 7 How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. William James Happiness, Men, Secret Add to Collection 8 Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats Happiness, Happy, Growth Add to Collection 9 Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. William Blake Love, Happiness, Fun Add to Collection 10 Happiness is an inside job. William Arthur Ward Happiness, Job, Inside Add to Collection 11 Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant Happiness, Happy, Morality Add to Collection 12 It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant Happiness, Happy, God Add to Collection 13 Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant Happiness, Imagination Add to Collection 14 If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success. Zig Ziglar Life, Success, Happiness Add to Collection 15 The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. Arthur Schopenhauer Happiness, Health, Sacrifice Add to Collection 16 Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Arthur Schopenhauer Happiness, Time, Chance Add to Collection 17 Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer Happiness, Money, Human Add to Collection 18 The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer Happiness, Pain, Boredom Add to Collection 19 Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. Theodor Adorno Happiness, Obsolete Add to Collection 20 A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. Theodor Adorno Happiness, Truth, Thought Add to Collection 21 Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant Happiness, Imagination Add to Collection 22 It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant Happiness, Happy, God Add to Collection 23 Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant Happiness, Happy, Morality Add to Collection 24 The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx Happiness, Religion, People Add to Collection 1 2 next › last »