Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Happy | Wisdom | Happiness |

Alphonse de Lamartine, fully Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; common sufferings are far strong links than common joys.

Grief | Wisdom | Happiness |

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A long happiness loses by its mere length.

Wisdom | Happiness |

Walter Savage Landor

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Faith | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Woman | Happiness |

William George Jordan

Happiness is the greatest paradox in nature. It can grow in any soil, live under any condition. It defies environment. The reason for this is that it does not come from without but from within. Whenever you see a person seeking happiness outside himself, you can be sure he has never found it.

Nature | Paradox | Reason | Wisdom | Happiness |

Gottfried Leibniz, fully Gottfried Wilhalm von Leibniz, Baron von Leibnitz

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Love | Wisdom | Happiness |