983 private quotes tagged happiness

“This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.”— Herman Hesse

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

“I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.”— Havelock Ellis

“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”— Jeremy Bentham

“Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!”— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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

“I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.”— Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

“Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.”— Julia Roberts

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

“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.”— Pierre Corneille

“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.”— Anna Pavlova

“To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.”— Hermann Hesse

“Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.”— Billy Wilder

“The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.”— Ogden Nash

“If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.”— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

“Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.”— Zoe Saldana

“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

“Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.”— Don Marquis

“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

“It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.”— Robert Herrick

“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

“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

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”— Jane Austen