Famous Quotes
- 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 on Happiness
- 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.
- The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.
- Donny Osmond on Happiness
- The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
- Ashley Montagu on Happiness
- The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
- Ogden Nash on Happiness
- The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
- Izabella Scorupco on Happiness
- The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
- Robert Baden-Powell on Happiness
- The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
- The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
- William Beveridge on Happiness
- The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
- William Ellery Channing on Happiness
- The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
- Paula Cole on Happiness
- The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.
- Eleanora Duse on Happiness
- The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
- Thomas Carlyle on Happiness
- The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
- Ring Lardner on Happiness
- 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 on Happiness
- The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- John Mason Brown on Happiness
- The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
- Chuck Palahniuk on Happiness
- The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
- Clayton Christensen on Happiness
- The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
- Frank Norris on Happiness
- The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Happiness
- The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
- Dale Carnegie on Happiness
- The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
- Hal Sparks on Happiness
- The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
- Joseph Butler on Happiness
- The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
- Harry Harrison on Happiness
- The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
- Alexander Alekhine on Happiness
- The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Dalai Lama on Happiness
- The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- Carrie P. Snow on Happiness
- The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
- Loretta Swit on Happiness
- The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
- Malcolm Muggeridge on Happiness
- The right to happiness is fundamental.
- Anna Pavlova on Happiness
- The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
- Jeremy Bentham on Happiness
- The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
- Eric Hoffer on Happiness
- The secret of happiness is something to do.
- John Burroughs on Happiness
- The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
- J. Donald Walters on Happiness
- The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
- Bertrand Russell on Happiness
- The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
- Carl Sandburg on Happiness
- The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
- F. H. Bradley on Happiness
- The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
- V. S. Pritchett on Happiness
- The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
- Daniel Dennett on Happiness
- The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
- Thucydides on Happiness
- The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
- Bertrand Russell on Happiness
- The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
- Olivia Goldsmith on Happiness
- The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
- Rod Parsley on Happiness
- The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
- William Hall on Happiness
- The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
- Herbert Read on Happiness
- The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau on Happiness
- The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
- Milan Kundera on Happiness
- The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
- Joseph Butler on Happiness
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo on Happiness
- The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.
- Rob Brydon on Happiness
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