983 private quotes tagged happiness

“The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.”— Herbert Read

“I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.”— Dan Savage

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

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

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”— Leo Buscaglia

“Independence is happiness.”— Susan B. Anthony

“Never mind your happiness do your duty.”— Peter Drucker

“You can be happy where you are.”— Joel Osteen

“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”— Alice Walker

“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.”— William E. Gladstone

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”— Ovid

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”— Clare Boothe Luce

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”— Linus Pauling

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”— Andre Maurois

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”— Epictetus

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”— Richard Bach

“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.”— Richard Bach

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”— John Barrymore

“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.”— Lydia M. Child

“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.”— Bertolt Brecht

“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”— Alexandre Dumas

“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”— Julia Roberts

“Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.”— Andy Rooney

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”— Bette Davis

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”— George Sand