983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” — Aeschylus

1 fav

“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.” — Helen Keller

1 fav

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” — Khalil Gibran

1 fav

“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” — Carl Jung

1 fav

“The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.” — Benjamin Franklin

1 fav

“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.” — Karl Marx

1 fav

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” — Benjamin Franklin

1 fav

“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.” — Lord Byron

1 fav

“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

1 fav

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

1 fav

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle

1 fav

“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

1 fav

“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.” — John Burroughs

1 fav

“Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.” — Bertrand Russell

1 fav

“Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.” — George Eliot

1 fav

“Love is trembling happiness.” — Khalil Gibran

1 fav

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” — Thomas Jefferson

1 fav

“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

1 fav

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

1 fav

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

1 fav

“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.” — André Gide

1 fav

“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.” — Benjamin Franklin

1 fav

“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” — Thomas Jefferson

1 fav

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” — Carl Sandburg

1 fav

“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

1 fav