Famous Quotes
- Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
- Herbert Spencer on Happiness
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- Bertrand Russell on Happiness
- Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
- Paulo Coelho on Happiness
- Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
- Ludwig Van Beethoven on Happiness
- Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
- Guru Nanak on Happiness
- Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.
- Maurice Sendak on Happiness
- Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
- Gustave Flaubert on Happiness
- On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!
- Chandler Massey on Happiness
- One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
- Isabelle Eberhardt on Happiness
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
- Gustave Flaubert on Happiness
- One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.
- Sean Hannity on Happiness
- One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
- Leo Tolstoy on Happiness
- One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
- William Feather on Happiness
- One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown on Happiness
- One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
- Maria Montessori on Happiness
- One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
- Laura Schlessinger on Happiness
- One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey on Happiness
- One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
- Bo Bennett on Happiness
- Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
- John Dryden on Happiness
- Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
- Greg Anderson on Happiness
- Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
- Heraclitus on Happiness
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson on Happiness
- Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
- Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
- Leonard Boswell on Happiness
- Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
- Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
- Red Skelton on Happiness
- Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
- Norman Vincent Peale on Happiness
- People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
- Gary Vaynerchuk on Happiness
- People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
- Carmen Electra on Happiness
- People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
- Lucinda Williams on Happiness
- People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
- Chuck Norris on Happiness
- People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
- Joan Rivers on Happiness
- 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. on Happiness
- People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.
- Jon Huntsman, Jr. on Happiness
- People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
- Hugh Laurie on Happiness
- Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
- Georges Bataille on Happiness
- 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 on Happiness
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
- Ben Nicholson on Happiness
- Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
- Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
- Wayne Gretzky on Happiness
- Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
- Monica Edwards on Happiness
- Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou on Happiness
- Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
- Samuel Chase on Happiness
- Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.
- Dale Carnegie on Happiness
- Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
- Maurice Maeterlinck on Happiness
- Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
- William E. Gladstone on Happiness
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
- Samuel Johnson on Happiness
- Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
- Oliver Goldsmith on Happiness
- Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.
- Glen Hansard on Happiness
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