983 private quotes tagged happiness

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” — Sophocles

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“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” — Robert Frost

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” — Albert Camus

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“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.” — Helen Keller

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“Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.” — Mason Cooley

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“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.” — Paulo Coelho

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“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.” — Josh Billings

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“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.” — Ayn Rand

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“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.” — Bertrand Russell

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“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” — Confucius

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“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.” — André Gide

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“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.” — Tom Wilson

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.” — Ayn Rand

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“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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