983 private quotes tagged happiness

“My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.” — Gail Porter

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“I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.” — Paula Cole

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“Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.” — Herman Hesse

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“Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!” — Dita Von Teese

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“There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.” — John Buchan

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“I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.” — Patricia Heaton

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“The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” — Frank Norris

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“So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.” — Rick Derringer

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“By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'” — Alastair Campbell

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“The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.” — Omar Bongo

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“Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.” — Adam Clarke

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“The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.” — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be, I think, an American cow.” — William Lyon Phelps

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“Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.” — Alastair Campbell

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“Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.” — Mary MacLane

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“So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.” — Duncan Sheik

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“Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.” — Joseph Butler

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“The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.” — Marguerite Duras

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“I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.” — William Weld

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“Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.” — Neil Simon

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“I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.” — Charisma Carpenter

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“Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.” — James F. Cooper

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“I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.” — Kenny Rogers

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“The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.” — Rutherford B. Hayes

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“Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.” — William Bennett

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