Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.  Arnold Bennett quotes If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. Aristotle quotes A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Ambrose Bierce quotes Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching the power of young minds, personal commitment and responsibility - these are the preconditions of educational recovery in America today; and, I believe, they have always been the preconditions of happiness and sanity for the human race. Adlai E. Stevenson quotes I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness. Edward Young quotes We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Honore de Balzac quotes Account no man happy till he dies Euripides quotes Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli quotes Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton quotes The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Benjamin Disraeli quotes | 
