983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”— Albert Schweitzer

“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.”— Audrey Hepburn

“The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.”— Herbert Read

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”— F. H. Bradley

“Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.”— Bryant H. McGill

“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?”— Christopher Hampton

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”— Pearl S. Buck

“If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.”— Leon Kass

“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”— William Ellery Channing

“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”— Walter Savage Landor

“Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.”— Robert Orben

“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”— David Mamet

“The right to happiness is fundamental.”— Anna Pavlova

“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.”— Ernest Dimnet

“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”— Alfred de Musset

“I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.”— Michael J. Fox

“No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”— Barbara de Angelis

“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”— Maria Mitchell

“The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.”— William Dean Howells

“Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.”— Frank McCourt

“Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.”— Benjamin Spock

“This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.”— Michael Korda

“We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.”— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.”— Joseph Franklin Rutherford