Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues... →
Alfred Day Hershey
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being... →
Herman Hesse
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away... →
For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound... →
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters... →
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions... →
Vanilla Ice
Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a... →