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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Sydney J. Harris

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Christopher Hampton

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Dag Hammarskjold

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Procrastination

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.