Quotes For Happiness 11
- "What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity." -Oliver Goldsmith
- "It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead."
-Brutus Hamilton
- "Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions."
-Robert J. Havighurst
- "Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and it is never attained."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, my alight upon you."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything."
-William Hazlitt
- "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-Ermest Hemingway
- "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
-Burton Hills
- "Happiness doesn?t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much."
-W. D. Hoar
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