H. Goaslind , Jr.
"A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Nine keys to contentment
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbors.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"The highest happiness of man . . . is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity."
Oliver Goldsmith
"It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead."
Brutus Hamilton
"Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions."
Robert J. Havighurst
"Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and it is never attained."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, my alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything."
William Hazlitt
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ermest Hemingway
"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
Burton Hills
"Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much."
W. D. Hoard
"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
Eric Hoffer
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches."
Elbert Green Hubbard
"Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop."
Gittel Hudnick
"Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
Victor Marie Hugo
"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Marie Hugo
"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
Francis Hutcheson
"Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not