Quotes about: happiness

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
– Stendhal
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
– Ben Nicholson
People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
– Hugh Laurie
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
– Joan Rivers
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
– Chuck Norris
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
– Lucinda Williams
People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
– Red Skelton
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
– Plato
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
– Leonard Boswell
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
– Thomas Jefferson
One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
– Maria Montessori
One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.
– Sean Hannity
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
– Gustave Flaubert
On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!
– Chandler Massey
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
– Gustave Flaubert
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
– Guru Nanak
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
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
– Paulo Coelho
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
– Herbert Spencer
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
– Adam Clarke
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
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
– Charles Sumner
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
– Horatio Alger
No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
– Glenn Beck
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
– Helen Keller
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
– Graham Greene
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
– Herman Hesse
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
– Chanakya
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
– Godfrey Reggio
My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.
– Katy Perry
My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.
– Shawn Johnson
My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.
– Emmylou Harris
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
– Gail Porter
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
– Dave Grohl
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
– Jennifer Garner
My life has run from misery to happiness.
– Loretta Lynn
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
– Clara Schumann
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
– David Mamet
My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
– Nicki Minaj
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
– Michael J. Fox
My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.
– Lucy Alibar
My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
– Evangeline Lilly
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
– Denzel Washington
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
– Kitty Kelley
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
– Peabo Bryson
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
– Arthur Rubinstein
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
– Freddie Mercury
Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.
– Eric Ripert
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
– Neil Simon
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
– Spike Milligan
Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.
– Jermaine Jackson
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.
– Dag Hammarskjold
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
– John Leguizamo
Love is trembling happiness.
– Khalil Gibran
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
– Michael Novak
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
– Red Skelton
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
– P. J. O'Rourke
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
– Sydney Smith
Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith.
– Kareena Kapoor
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
– George Sand
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
– Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
– Anton Chekhov
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
– Henry St. John
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
– Ausonius
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
– Robert Trout
Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
– Henry James Sumner Maine
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
– George Santayana
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
– James Hillman
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
– George Bernard Shaw
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
– Alexander Payne
It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
– Taraji P. Henson
It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
– Daniel Keys Moran
It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.
– Hilary Duff
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
– Miuccia Prada
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
– Adrian Grenier
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
– Marguerite Duras
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
– Robert Wyatt
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
– Herman Hesse
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
– The Dalai Lama
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
– Sarah Orne Jewett
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
– Kin Hubbard
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
– Jonathan Mayhew
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
– Dolley Madison
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
– Polly Toynbee
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
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
– George Porter
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
– Agnes Repplier
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
– Thomas Jefferson
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
– James Smithson
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
– Sir Philip Sidney
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
– Thor Heyerdahl
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
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
– Polly Toynbee
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
– Guy Laliberte