Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
— Frederic Chopin
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
— Franz Schubert
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
— Frank Norris
Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
— Francois Lelord
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
— Francois Fenelon
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
— Francis Hutcheson
We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
— Frances Wright
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
— Fiona Shaw
I have always believed in seeking happiness in the happiness of others and the virtue of seeking God's pleasure in helping His people.
— Fethullah Gulen
I guess just enjoying what you do and always wanting more of that enjoyment, satisfaction, and putting something together creatively - that gives me a lot of happiness.
— Farhan Akhtar
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.
— Ezra Miller
My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
— Evangeline Lilly
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
— Euripides
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
— Franz Kafka
My Bandcamp had a lot of bad and good music, but I relied on that to sort my feelings. My sadness will always be there, even in the happiness.
— Frankie Cosmos
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
— Frank McCourt
Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
— Francis Bacon
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
— Frances Burney
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
— Ferdinand Mount
When you're happy with yourself, you have to find another person who is happy with herself so you can share your happiness.
— Fabio Lanzoni
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
— F. H. Bradley
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
— Evita Peron
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
— Eustace Budgell
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
— Freddie Mercury
Our health underpins our happiness and is a foundation of economic advancement.
— Frans van Houten
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
— Frank Sinatra
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.
— Frank Crowninshield
I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
— Francesca Lia Block
My children and their happiness have always been my greatest concern.
— Florence Henderson
It's true I wasn't as important at Chelsea. I never demanded that. What I wanted was to be a champion, because few people get that. I succeeded. But the happiness wasn't there.
— Filipe Luis
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
— Felix Dennis
Enjoy the games, and go on the pitch with happiness, and go game by game.
— Fabinho
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.
— Evgeny Morozov
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
