983 private quotes tagged happiness

“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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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” — Alexander Pope

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“The will of man is his happiness.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.” — Blaise Pascal

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“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.” — Max Planck

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“Happiness is no laughing matter.” — Richard Whately

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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 a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.” — Francis Bacon

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“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.” — Samuel Johnson

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“A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.” — Josh Billings

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“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.” — Sophocles

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“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.” — Logan P. Smith

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“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.” — Alice Meynell

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“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.” — William Feather

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“Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.” — Plutarch

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“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.” — Samuel Johnson

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“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.” — Johnny Carson

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“A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.” — Tom Wilson

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“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

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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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“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.” — William Blake

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