 There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Author: Francis Bacon |
| Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
- Elton Trueblood Author: Assorted Authors |
| No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. Author: Frederick W. Robertson |
| Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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| Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected, will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter. Author: George Washington |
| The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practise of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government. Author: George Washington |
| Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, under no form of government are laws better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind. Author: George Washington |
