983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.” — Don Marquis

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“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.” — Marcel Proust

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“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Happiness is making your dreams come true.” — Jourdan Dunn

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“Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.” — Red Skelton

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“Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.” — Bo Derek

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“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.” — Maurice Chevalier

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“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.” — David Sarnoff

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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” — Jane Austen

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“I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.” — Kanye West

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“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” — Doug Larson

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“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.” — Joseph Addison

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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.” — Ted Nugent

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“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” — Spike Milligan

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“Money may not buy happiness, but it can d--n well give it!” — Freddie Mercury

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“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand

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“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.” — Andre Maurois

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“Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.” — Agnes Martin

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“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” — Rita Mae Brown

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“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.” — Alphonse Karr

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