983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”— James Barrie

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”— Abraham Lincoln

“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”— Henry David Thoreau

“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”— Walt Whitman

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”— Buddha

“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”— Dalai Lama

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”— Jim Rohn

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”— Henry Ward Beecher

“Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.”— Peabo Bryson

“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”— Anatole France

“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”— Gustave Flaubert

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”— Dalai Lama

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”— Charles Spurgeon

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”— Sigmund Freud

“You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.”— John Mayer

“I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.”— Brandon Boyd

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”— Victor Hugo

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”— Dalai Lama

“The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.”— Paramahansa Yogananda

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”— Dalai Lama

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”— Friedrich Schiller

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”— George Orwell

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”— Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.”— Dale Carnegie