Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.plato
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.H. Jackson Brown,Jr.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. William Feather
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle
Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective. Chris Webber
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. Bryant H.McGill
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. paramahansa yogananda
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Benjamin Disraeli
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Virginia Woolf
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.plato
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. Ernest Hemingway