It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.
~ Thomas Aquinas
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.
~ Francis Bacon
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
~ Saint Augustine
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
~ Alexander Alekhine
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
~ Helen Keller
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
~ Lord Byron
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
~ William Shakespeare
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
~ Al Green
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
~ Frédéric Chopin
As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.
~ Bj The Chicago Kid
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
~ Frank Sinatra
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
~ Oswald Chambers
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
~ Samuel Johnson
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
~ Euripides
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
~ Ovid
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
~ Virginia Woolf
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
~ William Lyon Phelps
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
~ Thomas Huxley
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
~ John Ruskin
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
~ Sophocles
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
~ Horace
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
~ Samuel Richardson
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
~ Ellen Key
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
~ John Dryden
It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
~ Taraji P. Henson
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
~ James Allen
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
~ William Wilberforce
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
~ Henry St. John
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
~ Bob Dylan
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
~ Sholom Aleichem
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
~ Will Rogers
I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.
~ Drake
