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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Quote by Henry Ford about joy, happiness, work

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Quote by Henry Ford about wealth, happiness

In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about wine, drinking, food, happiness, thinking, being

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about spring, happiness, people, things, day, good, good luck

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about love, pain, happiness, life

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about waste, knowledge, happiness, nature, human imperfections, life

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, moment

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, wife, happiness, nothing, man

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty, liberty, enemies, happiness, human imperfections, contentment

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about joy, equality, pleasure, happiness, human imperfections

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about home, house, happiness, nothing, good, good luck, man, people

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, art, magic, nothing, things, man

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about hope, happiness

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Quote by Franz Kafka about happiness, faith, perfection

A person's happiness is inversely related to how many timepieces s/he owns

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about happiness, people

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain.

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about happiness, pain

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Quote by Thomas Paine about happiness, infidelity, faith, man

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about happiness, garden

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about happiness, risk, being

Imagination disposes of everything, it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about imagination, justice, beauty, happiness, world