983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.” — Ambrose Bierce

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

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“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

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

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“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.” — James Madison

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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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“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.” — William Feather

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“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.” — Aldous Huxley

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“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.” — Victor Hugo

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“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” — Helen Keller

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“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.” — Aeschylus

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“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.” — Thomas Paine

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“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

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“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.” — Plato

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“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” — George Burns

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“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.” — George Eliot

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“It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.” — Thomas Jefferson

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