Famous Quotes

"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."

Laurence Sterne 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 Laurence Sterne

• "I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."

• "Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas."

• "So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil."

• "People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."

• "People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."