Happiness Quotes - page 4

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. (Pierre Corneille)
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. View quote
Oscar Levant
Happiness is a sort of action. View quote
Aristotle
They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom. View quote
Confucius
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. View quote
Dalai Lama
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. View quote
John Lennon
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! (William Hazlitt)
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. View quote
George Eliot
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. View quote
Ayn Rand
There is no happiness without patriotism. View quote
Władysław Sikorski
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. View quote
William Morris
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. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. View quote
Samuel Johnson
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. View quote
Tom Waits
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. (William S. Burroughs)
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness and Beauty are by-products. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. View quote
Joseph Addison
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness. View quote
William Saroyan
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