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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Epictetus

Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 50-c. 138)

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

French poet and critic (1821-1867)

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Aldous Huxley

English writer and philosopher (1894-1963)

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all. It doesn’t guarantee our rights to charity.

Jesse Ventura

American professional wrestler and 38th governor of Minnesota (born 1951)

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Anna Pavlova

Russian ballet dancer

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

American humorist

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Jamie Lee Curtis

American actress and author

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Thomas Merton

priest and author

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Samuel Johnson

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