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- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States
Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet
Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death.
- Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Writer and Statesman
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
- Blair
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlivens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions we can make of the goods of fortune.
- Johann von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet and Dramatist
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
- (Dr.) William (J.) Bennett (1943- ) American Author and Educator
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.
- Adam Smith (1723-1790)
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The world is good-natured to people who are good natured.
- Frederick E. Crane
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Statesman and Scientist
One's true happiness depends more upon one's own judgment of one's self, on a consciousness of rectitude in action and intention, and in the approbation of those few who judge impartially, than upon the applause of the unthinking undiscerning multitude, who are apt to cry Hosanna today, and tomorrow, Crucify him.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-American Writer and Philosopher
He felt that he could forgive anything to anyone, because happiness was the greatest agent of purification.
- William H. Sheldon
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
- Beverly Sills (1929-) American Opera Singer
I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
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