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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900)

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)
US writer and humorist (1950 - )

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

Bertrand Russell, from the essay "The Science to Save Us From Science"
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Mother Teresa
Indian humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997)

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English proverb

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

Thomas Fuller
English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661)

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Foster C. McClellan

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Johnson

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

Sidney Madwed

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