983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.”— Conor Oberst

“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

“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”— John Lubbock

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

“People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.”— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“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

“An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.”— Maurice Maeterlinck

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

“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”— Jeremy Bentham

“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

“The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.”— Olivia Goldsmith

“Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.”— Bernard Meltzer

“Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.”— Douglas Horton

“Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.”— Irving Babbitt

“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”— Emile M. Cioran

“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

“Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.”— Jane Porter

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

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.”— John Stuart Mill

“Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.”— Dionne Warwick

“One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.”— Gustave Flaubert

“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