“ Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine. Victor Hugo
“ After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, askin… Paulo Coelho
“ The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the… Steven Pinker
“ Winners take chances. Like everyone else they fear failing but they refuse to let fear control them. Nancy Simms
“ When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right. Graham Wilson
“ The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought choked half strangled or surrendered to with hu… Anne Rice
“ The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not. Ludwig Wittgenstein
“ Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it. Dr. Joyce Brothers
“ Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it" or success. Dr. Joyce Brothers
“ In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde
“ Parents however old they and we may grow to be serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around we can avoid the fact of our mortality we can still be inn… Jane Howard
“ To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something to secure it in this world we must do something. Charlotte P. Gilman
“ If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time. Josh Billings
“ I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire a little surplus to give you confidence a little too much work each day enthusiasm for your work a s… J. Kenfield Morley