Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown

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

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James

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

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

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot