983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.”— Alphonse Karr

“Happiness is making your dreams come true.”— Jourdan Dunn

“Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.”— Ben Nicholson

“Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.”— Colin Hay

“We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.”— Bernard Loiseau

“The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.”— Mortimer Adler

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”— Denis Waitley

“Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.”— Oscar Levant

“Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.”— John Dewey

“Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.”— Rollo May

“While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.”— Bryant H. McGill

“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?”— Daisaku Ikeda

“This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.”— Michael Korda

“I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.”— Michael J. Fox

“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”— David Mamet

“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?”— Christopher Hampton

“The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.”— Ellen DeGeneres

“While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.”— Bo Bennett

“Happiness lies first of all in health.”— George William Curtis

“I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.”— Julia Ward Howe

“The groundwork of all happiness is health.”— Leigh Hunt

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”— Kevyn Aucoin

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”— Euripides

“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”— Chanakya

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”— Joseph Addison