983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.”— Leo Rosten

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”— Ashley Montagu

“Desire is individual. Happiness is common.”— Julian Casablancas

“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”— John Stuart Mill

“People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.”— Lucinda Williams

“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.”— Ben Jonson

“It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.”— Kin Hubbard

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”— Desiderius Erasmus

“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”— John Dryden

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”— Sydney J. Harris

“Happiness does not consist in self-love.”— Joseph Butler

“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.”— Booth Tarkington

“There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.”— Jose Marti

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”— Robert A. Heinlein

“Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.”— Andrei Platonov

“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”— Joseph Roux

“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.”— Austin O'Malley

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”— Democritus

“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”— George Sand

“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

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

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

“Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.”— Frank McCourt

“The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.”— William Dean Howells