983 private quotes tagged happiness

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“It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”— Helen Keller
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“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”— Ludwig van Beethoven
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“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”— Henry Ford
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“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”— Bertrand Russell
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“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”— Lord Byron
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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”— C. S. Lewis
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“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”— Samuel Johnson
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“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”— Samuel Johnson
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“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”— Samuel Johnson
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“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”— Henry Ford
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“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”— Samuel Johnson
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“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”— Blaise Pascal
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“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.”— George Eliot
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“I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.”— Samuel Johnson
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“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”— Plato
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“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”— Napoleon Hill
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“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.”— Mark Twain
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“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”— Albert Einstein
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“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”— Alice Meynell