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Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lothair · 1870

★ 1.2

Why not seize the pleasure at once?-How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Emma · 1815

★ 1.3

Ah, this, that we call happiness, how intimate a part of the soul it is, and of what little importance are the outside elements which seem to go to its making!

1909

★ 1.8

It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how... And still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

1941

★ 1.8

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close · 2005

★ 1.8

TV program · Drama (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Drama · Comedy

The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't to search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead.

Mr. Peanutbutter

Bojack Horseman · 2014

★ 1.8

There's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

1908

★ 1.9

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

1955

★ 1.9

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

Film · Neo-noir · Thriller (film) · Thriller

So you lie to yourself to be happy, there's nothing wrong with that, we all do it.

Memento · 2000

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · Adventure drama (film) · Biography · Adventure drama

But you're wrong if you think the joy of life comes principally from human relationships. God's placed it all around us. It's in everything, in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at those things.

Chris McCandless

Into the Wild · 2007

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

On all plausible theories, everyone’s well-being consists at least in part in being happy, and avoiding suffering.

2011

★ 1.9

That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1784

★ 1.9

Personal journal

Cultivate a well-ordered mind, it's your only road to happiness; and to reach it, be orderly in everything, even in the smallest details.

Eugene Delacroix

1823

★ 1.9

Play · Drama (play)

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

1884

★ 1.9

Play · Drama (play) · Comedy (play)

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

1894

★ 1.9

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

U.G. Krishnamurti

1984

★ 1.9

Essay · Newspaper

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

1792

★ 2.0

In order to be content men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers.

Albert Einstein

1940

★ 2.0

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

Happiness is in doing, not in the getting what you want.

Before Sunset · 2004

★ 2.0

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