983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.” — Arthur Helps

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“As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.” — Dan Stevens

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“Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.” — Harry Browne

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“I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.” — Mary MacLane

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“I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.” — Vanessa Paradis

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“Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.” — Walter Savage Landor

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“What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.” — Bernard Cornwell

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“There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.” — Fiona Shaw

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“Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.” — Meir Kahane

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“Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.” — Harry Lauder

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“I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.” — Ric Ocasek

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“Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.” — Azar Nafisi

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“Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.” — Polly Toynbee

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“Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.” — Alexander Payne

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“When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.” — Tom Ford

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“Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.” — K. D. Lang

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“People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.” — Chuck Norris

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“Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.” — George Mason

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“The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.” — William Godwin

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“My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.” — Dave Grohl

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“There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.” — Thomas Hood

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“This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.” — Ai Weiwei

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“Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.” — Norman Douglas

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“Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.” — Susan Faludi

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“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.” — Euripides

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