983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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“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

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“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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“Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.” — Laura Schlessinger

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“God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.” — Billy Graham

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“Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.” — Glen Hansard

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“When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.” — Nicole Kidman

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“As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.” — Samuel Richardson

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“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” — Honore de Balzac

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“I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.” — Robert Powell

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“A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.” — Suze Orman

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“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.” — Maxwell Maltz

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“Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” — Bill Vaughan

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“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” — Eustace Budgell

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“Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.” — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.” — Thomas Huxley

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“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.” — Thucydides

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“I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.” — Lana Del Rey

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“Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.” — J. Donald Walters

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“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.” — Edward Gibbon

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