983 private quotes tagged happiness

“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

“A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.”— Stendhal

“Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.”— Louise Hart

“Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”— Henry Van Dyke

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

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”— Maxim Gorky

“False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.”— Charles de Montesquieu

“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.”— Ogden Nash

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

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.”— Martha Washington

“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

“To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.”— Henry Van Dyke

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”— Jean de la Bruyere

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

“Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.”— Daisaku Ikeda

“My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.”— Katy Perry

“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”— Eric Hoffer

“It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.”— Adrian Grenier

“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

“I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.”— Coretta Scott King

“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”— William Cowper

“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

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

“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