983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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“Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.” — David Lee Roth

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“We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.” — Bernard Loiseau

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“I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.” — Debbi Fields

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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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“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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“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.” — Sarah McLachlan

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“We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.” — Pierre Corneille

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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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“If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.” — David Brainerd

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

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“The secret of happiness is something to do.” — John Burroughs

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

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

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“What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.” — Henny Youngman

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“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” — George Santayana

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“I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.” — Thomas Huxley

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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 within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.” — Martin Yan

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“Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.” — Michael Novak

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“Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.” — Colin Hay

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