“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”
— Helen Keller Primary source“I wish we had horses to ride,” Maria said. “In my happiness I would like to be on a good horse and ride fast with thee riding fast beside me and we would ride faster and faster, galloping, and never pass my happiness.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Disputed“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt Primary sourceHorses Spring Europe Wine Drinking