983 private quotes tagged happiness

“There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.” — Claire Forlani

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“First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.” — Nadia Giosia

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“I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.” — Richard Eyre

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“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.” — William Beveridge

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“Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.” — Godfrey Reggio

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“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.” — John Mason Brown

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“In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.” — Bob Brown

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“I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.” — Youssou N'Dour

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“But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.” — Victoria Jackson

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“I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.” — Pierre Salinger

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“Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.” — Guy Finley

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“For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.” — James Payn

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“The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.” — Seal

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“May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.” — Islom Karimov

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“I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.” — David Hyde Pierce

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“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.” — Fanny Burney

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“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.” — V. S. Pritchett

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“Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.” — Jermaine Jackson

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“Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.” — Amy Lowell

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“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” — Daphne du Maurier

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“We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.” — Park Geun-hye

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“My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.” — Evangeline Lilly

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“As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.” — Amber Riley

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“More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.” — Thomas Traherne

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