"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."

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"The righteous shall rejoice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Happiness, Faith, Joy, Celebration

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Happiness, Life

"Song of praise: Be joyful and count your blessings. There are so many things to be thankful for; the gift of being alive, blessings of a new day to hope and dream, the gift of families, the gift of children, the gift of friends, gift of people who make you laugh and smiles, the gift of strangers who show you kindness,the gift of nature, gift of educators, gift of preachers and many more."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Happiness, Praise, Joy, Blessings, Life

"Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Happiness, Fun, Joy, Instinct, Emotion

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Happiness, Equality, Enjoyment, Pleasure

"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Happiness, Age, Constitution, Ruin

"The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Happiness, Peace, Smile, Self, Truth

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

William James, American Philosopher

Happiness, Action, May

"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

Happiness, Mistake, Suffering, Understanding

"[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Happiness, Joy, Love, Emotion

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"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness."

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"No man is ever old enough to know better."

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"The righteous shall rejoice."

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct."

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

"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back."

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

"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."

"[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

Explore more quotes by Holbrook Jackson

"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness."

"Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing."

"Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice."

"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children."

"Genius is initiative on fire."

"Suffer fools gladly; they may be right."

"The end of reading is not more books but more life."

"The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich."

"Intuition is reason in a hurry."

"No man is ever old enough to know better."