The secret of happiness is something to do. John Burroughs quotes Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it. John Burroughs quotes A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen quotes Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. Horace quotes True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope. John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire quotes Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. George Santayana quotes Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. George Santayana quotes A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. George Santayana quotes Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense quality of life. George Bernard Shaw quotes |