983 private quotes tagged happiness

“What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“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

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“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.” — Harold Kushner

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

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“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

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

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

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“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.” — William Cowper

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“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

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

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“Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.” — Jose Marti

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“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

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“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

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“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.” — Immanuel Kant

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“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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“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

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“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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

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“I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.” — Malcolm Muggeridge

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“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” — J. D. Salinger

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“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.” — Stendhal

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“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

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“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.” — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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“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

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“The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.” — Richard Eyre

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