Famous Quotes

"Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun."

Robert Burton 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 Robert Burton

• "Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."

• "To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

• "One was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague."

• "What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning."

• "To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."