983 private quotes tagged happiness

“We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.”— Maxwell Maltz

“God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.”— Red Skelton

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

“Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.”— Laurence Sterne

“For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.”— Jimmy Carter

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

“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

“The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.”— Hannah Arendt

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

“Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.”— Andrew Weil

“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

“Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.”— David O. McKay

“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”— Jonathan Edwards

“Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.”— George A. Smith

“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

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.”— Quentin Crisp

“The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.”— Jesse Ventura

“I don't know the true meaning of happiness.”— Jonathan Davis

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

“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”— Sydney Smith

“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

“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”— Henri Matisse

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”— Freya Stark

“Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.”— Gregg Easterbrook

“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