Famous Quotes
- There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
- There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Happiness
- There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
- John Buchan on Happiness
- There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
- Fiona Shaw on Happiness
- There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
- Claire Forlani on Happiness
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
- Herman Hesse on Happiness
- This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
- Michael Korda on Happiness
- This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
- Clayton Christensen on Happiness
- This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.
- Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
- Azar Nafisi on Happiness
- Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
- Holbrook Jackson on Happiness
- Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis on Happiness
- Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison on Happiness
- Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
- William Cowper on Happiness
- Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
- Isaac D'Israeli on Happiness
- To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Happiness
- To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
- Hermann Hesse on Happiness
- To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Happiness
- To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
- Victor Hugo on Happiness
- To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
- Gustave Flaubert on Happiness
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Bertrand Russell on Happiness
- To buy happiness is to sell soul.
- Douglas Horton on Happiness
- To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
- Charles Inglis on Happiness
- To describe happiness is to diminish it.
- To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
- Henry Van Dyke on Happiness
- To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey on Happiness
- To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
- Matthew Arnold on Happiness
- To me, flowers are happiness.
- Stefano Gabbana on Happiness
- To me, the most important thing is happiness.
- Sheryl Swoopes on Happiness
- To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
- Christina Ricci on Happiness
- To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
- Christopher Hampton on Happiness
- To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
- J. B. Priestley on Happiness
- To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- James Madison on Happiness
- To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
- Thomas Traherne on Happiness
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
- Kevyn Aucoin on Happiness
- Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
- Rachel Field on Happiness
- Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
- Fanny Burney on Happiness
- Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
- Alexander Smith on Happiness
- True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
- Joseph Addison on Happiness
- True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery on Happiness
- True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
- Ben Jonson on Happiness
- True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
- John W. Gardner on Happiness
- True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Happiness
- True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller on Happiness
- True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
- William J. H. Boetcker on Happiness
- Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
- Khalil Gibran on Happiness
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