Famous Quotes
- He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
- He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
- Samuel Johnson on Happiness
- He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
- Olympia Brown on Happiness
- Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
- K. D. Lang on Happiness
- Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
- Vittorio Alfieri on Happiness
- Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
- Beth Ditto on Happiness
- History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
- Wendell Willkie on Happiness
- Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
- Oswald Chambers on Happiness
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
- William Samuel Johnson on Happiness
- Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind.
- How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
- Dan Savage on Happiness
- How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
- William Ellery Channing on Happiness
- How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
- Paul Sweeney on Happiness
- How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
- William James on Happiness
- I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
- Hugh Laurie on Happiness
- I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
- Maurice Sendak on Happiness
- I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
- I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
- Linda Evans on Happiness
- I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
- I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
- Havelock Ellis on Happiness
- I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
- J. D. Salinger on Happiness
- I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
- Lord Byron on Happiness
- I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
- Taylor Caldwell on Happiness
- I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.
- Princess Margaret on Happiness
- I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington on Happiness
- I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
- Lillie Langtry on Happiness
- I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Wilhelm Von Humboldt on Happiness
- I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
- Victoria Woodhull on Happiness
- I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
- Pratibha Patil on Happiness
- I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
- Giorgio Armani on Happiness
- I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.
- Richard Eyre on Happiness
- I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
- Pierre Corneille on Happiness
- I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
- Alfred Day Hershey on Happiness
- I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
- Malcolm Muggeridge on Happiness
- I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'
- Lea Michele on Happiness
- I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Happiness
- I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Victoria Woodhull on Happiness
- I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
- Nana Mouskouri on Happiness
- I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.
- Paul Thomas Anderson on Happiness
- I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
- Vanessa Paradis on Happiness
- I don't know the true meaning of happiness.
- Jonathan Davis on Happiness
- I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
- Arizona Muse on Happiness
- I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.
- Gisele Bundchen on Happiness
- I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
- Eddie Albert on Happiness
- I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
- Dan Savage on Happiness
- I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
- Joni Mitchell on Happiness
- I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
- Christina Milian on Happiness
- I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
- Richard Eyre on Happiness
- I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.
- Peter MacKay on Happiness
- I find that 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.
- Paula Cole on Happiness
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