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"Be virtuous and you'll be happy? Nonsense! Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous." James Gould Cozzens Rate this Quote
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." The 14th. Dalai Lama 4.7000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people." Thomas Davidson 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy." Robertson Davies Rate this Quote
"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness." Robertson Davies 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts." Clarence Day 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Any enjoyment is weakened when shared." Marquis de Sade 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy softens more hearts than tears do." Mme. de Sartory Rate this Quote
"Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles." Dorothy DeBolt 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something." Chauncey Depew Rate this Quote
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears." Rene Descartes 4.4286 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be." Taisen Deshimaru 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being." The Dhammapada 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy." The Dhammapada 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!" Charles Dickens 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 4.8182 average rating Rate this Quote
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself." Marlene Dietrich 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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Aristotle Athenæus A. Edward Newton
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Betty Naomi Friedan Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Bryant Gumbel
Buddha Burton Hills B. J. Gupta
Carl Gustav Jung Charles Caleb Colton Charles Dickens
Charles Augustus Lindbergh Charles Farrar Browne Charles Langbridge Morgan
Charlotte Bronte Chauncey Depew Christopher Darlington Morley
Christopher S. Drew Clarence Day Claude Adrien Helvetius
Confucius Count Maurice Maeterlink Craig Claiborne
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
Dr. Samuel Johnson Dr. Thomas Fuller Dwight David Eisenhower
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
Joachim du Bellay Joan Winmill Brown Joe Moore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Kaspar Lavater John Barrymore
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
Oscar Levant Ossian Lang Patrice Gifford
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Ralph Kiner Rene Descartes Richard David Bach
Richard Needham Rita Mae Brown Robertson Davies
Robert Anson Heinlein Robert Green Ingersoll Robert Lee Frost
Robert Montgomery Robert Newton Anthony Rodan of Alexandria
Roger Ward Babson Romare Beardon Rose Lane
Roy Goodman Ruth Fulton Benedict R. J. Baughan
Saint Augustine Adela Rogers St. Johns Salvador de Madaringa
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Sigmund Freud Simondes of Ceos Sir James Matthew Barrie
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Stuti Garg Sue Grafton Sydney J. Harris
Søren Aaby Kierkegaard Taisen Deshimaru Tao Le Ching
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Thomas Jefferson Thomas Davidson Thomas Edward Bodett
Thomas Mann Thomas à Kempis Thom Barber
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Victor Borge Victor Hugo Václav Havel
Walter Savage Landor Warren Gamaliel Harding Wayne W(alter) Dyer
Willa Sibert Cather William Blake William Hazlitt
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