983 private quotes tagged happiness

“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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“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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“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” — Victor Hugo

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

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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 joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” — Henry Ford

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“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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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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“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 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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“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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“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.” — Napoleon Hill

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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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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.” — Samuel Johnson

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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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“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.” — Bertrand Russell

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