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"The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind." A. E. Houseman Rate this Quote
"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age." Victor Hugo Rate this Quote
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." Victor Hugo 4.5833 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." Victor Hugo 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched." John K. Hutchens Rate this Quote
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself." Aldous Leonard Huxley 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to." Aldous Leonard Huxley 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so." William Ralph Inge 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result." Robert Green Ingersoll 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart." Jesse Louis Jackson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand." Henry James 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure." William James Rate this Quote
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed." Storm Jameson 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad." Thomas Jefferson 3.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness." Thomas Jefferson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others." Thomas Jefferson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar" Thomas Jefferson 4.5313 average rating Rate this Quote
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thomas Jefferson 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens." Douglas Jerrold 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love." Adela Rogers St. Johns 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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Buddha Burton Hills B. J. Gupta
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Charlotte Bronte Chauncey Depew Christopher Darlington Morley
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Dale Carnegie David Gerrold David Havard
Dean Koontz Deciderius Erasmus Diane Elizabeth Duane
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Donald Robert Perry Marquis Don Fraser
Doris Wild Helmering Dorothy DeBolt Douglas Jerrold
Dr. Dr. David M. Burns Dr. Joyce
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D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence Eddie Cantor Edith Ann
Edmund Burke Elias Canetti Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Epictetus Epicurus Erich Fromm
Eric Hoffer Ernest Holmen Ernest Miller Hemingway
Ethel Barrymore Ethel Perry Andrus Eugene Kennedy
Euripides Eustace Budgell Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Fran Lebowitz Franz Kafka Fran Leibowitz
Frederick William Faber Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche F(rancis) Scott
F. H. Bradley Gabrid Garcia Marquez George Burns
George Barrell Cheever George Levinger George Mathew Allen
George Seaton Bowes George W. Douglas Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Glenn Holm Goldie Hawn Hannah Arendt
Harold S. Geneen Hebrews 12:2 Bible Hector Hugh Munro
Heinrich Heine Helen Adams Keller Henri Matisse
Henry Ford Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Graham Greene Henry James Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Miller Herbert "Marshall" McLuhan Horace
Horace Mann Howard Abrahamson Hugh Downs
H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky H. Jackson Browne Ingrid Bergman
I Ching Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Jacques Maritain
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. James Gould Cozzens James Lane Allen
Janet Louise Holman Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière Jean Caldwell
Jean de LaBruyere Jean de La Bruyère Jean Kerr
Jenna Elfman Jesse Louis Jackson Jim
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John Burroughs John B. Gough John Cheever
John Christian Bovee John Dryden John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John K. Hutchens John Mason Brown John Mason Good
John Stuart Mill John W(illiam) Gardner Joseph Addison
Joseph Conrad Julia A. Fletcher Carney Julie Arabi
Kahlil Gibran Kalidasa Kitaro Nishida
Lao-Tzu Lawrence Peter Berra Lewis Mumford
Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Lord Mancroft Lucretius
Ludwig van Beethoven Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Marabeth Madsen
Marcus Aelius Aurelius Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maredith Close Margaret Bonnano Margaret Lindsey
Mark Twain Marlene Dietrich Marquis de Sade
Martina Horner Martin Luther Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Cholmondeley Maurice Chevalier Maxim Gorky
Maxwell Maltz Mel Colgrove Michael Leuning
Mignon McLaughlin Miguel de Cervantes Mme. de Sartory
Mohammed Daud Khan Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Naguib Mahfouz
Napolean Hill Nathaniel Hawthorne Newell Dwight Hillis
Norman Lear Norman MacEwan Ogden Nash
Og Mandino Orison Swett Marden Orson Scott Card
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Robert Anson Heinlein Robert Green Ingersoll Robert Lee Frost
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Roy Goodman Ruth Fulton Benedict R. J. Baughan
Saint Augustine Adela Rogers St. Johns Salvador de Madaringa
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