Famous Quotes

"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."

Herbert Spencer on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

• "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

  John Barrymore on Happiness

• "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

  Dalai Lama on Happiness

• "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

  Abraham Lincoln 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

• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by Herbert Spencer

• "The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter."

• "In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."

• "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

• "Education has for its object the formation of character."

• "We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."