Famous Quotes
- In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.
- In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
- Marla Gibbs on Happiness
- In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
- Leslie Caron on Happiness
- In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
- 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 on Happiness
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- Saint Augustine on Happiness
- Independence is happiness.
- Susan B. Anthony on Happiness
- Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
- James F. Cooper on Happiness
- Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
- Polly Toynbee on Happiness
- Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
- Guy Laliberte on Happiness
- Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
- Polly Toynbee on Happiness
- It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
- George Bernard Shaw on Happiness
- It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
- Thor Heyerdahl on Happiness
- It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
- Philip Sidney on Happiness
- It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
- James Smithson on Happiness
- It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
- Thomas Paine on Happiness
- It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson on Happiness
- It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
- Agnes Repplier on Happiness
- It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
- Immanuel Kant on Happiness
- It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
- Charles Spurgeon on Happiness
- It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
- Denis Waitley on Happiness
- It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
- George Porter on Happiness
- It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
- Max Planck on Happiness
- It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
- W. Somerset Maugham on Happiness
- It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
- Polly Toynbee on Happiness
- It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
- Dolley Madison on Happiness
- It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
- Jonathan Mayhew on Happiness
- It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard on Happiness
- It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
- Desiderius Erasmus on Happiness
- It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
- Hugo Black on Happiness
- It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
- Sarah Orne Jewett on Happiness
- It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
- Elsie De Wolfe on Happiness
- It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
- Dalai Lama on Happiness
- It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
- Ashley Montagu on Happiness
- It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
- Robert Herrick on Happiness
- It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
- Barry Took on Happiness
- 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, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
- Herman Hesse on Happiness
- It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
- Robert Wyatt on Happiness
- It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
- Thomas Carlyle on Happiness
- It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
- Marguerite Duras on Happiness
- It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
- Adrian Grenier on Happiness
- It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
- Simon Travaglia on Happiness
- It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
- Miuccia Prada on Happiness
- It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.
- Hilary Duff on Happiness
- It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
- Daniel Keys Moran on Happiness
- It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard on Happiness
- It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
- Taraji P. Henson on Happiness
- Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
- Alexander Payne on Happiness
- Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
- Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
- Sigmund Freud on Happiness
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