Famous Quotes

"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."

Walter Benjamin 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 Walter Benjamin

• "The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."

• "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."

• "It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."

• "The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."

• "Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."