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

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

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

“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”— Oswald Chambers

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

“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

“Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.”— Maurice Sendak

“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

“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

“And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.”— Adam Weishaupt

“It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.”— Miuccia Prada

“To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.”— Christina Ricci

“I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.”— Maurice Sendak

“All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.”— William Law

“It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.”— Polly Toynbee

“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”— Iris Murdoch

“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”— Anthony Trollope

“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”— Thornton Wilder

“Happiness is always a coincidence.”— Jose Bergamin

“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”— Arthur Schopenhauer