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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Abdul Kalam

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire


The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

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's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs


When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell

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