Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Cab CallowayLove is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert HeinleinThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordHappiness in old age is, more than anything else, preserving the privileges of privacy.
Harold AzineI do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
Phyllis McGinleyDon't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George SandJoy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo MayHappiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny CarsonThose who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook JacksonWhether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George EliotHappiness is no laughing matter
Richard WhatelyCelebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda BradleyHappiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert FrostAll who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord ByronHappiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas JeffersonHappiness is the sense that one matters.
Sarah TrimmerTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustav FlaubertI never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
Max KauffmanAs it is for the good of all and the general happiness of the nation, I am ready and willing. Tell the people I'm staying.
Pedro II believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.
Samuel ButlerPoliticians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleThe two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur SchopenhauerHappiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam SmithHappiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Douglas William JerroldToday well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
Francis GrayOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusMoney can't buy you happiness.
AnonymousHappiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adult
Thomas SzaszLovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole FranceThis tour takes the rarely seen trophy - the jewel in the crown of world football - to fans around the world, with the aim of spreading happiness and hope to make the world a better place.
Sepp BlatterSince sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies
Thomas GrayJust as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund FreudWhy love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony HopkinsYou are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusDerive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri MatisseYou traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
HoraceWhen God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton WilderHappiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin SpockThe man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Richard NixonGod... doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace.
Patricia HeatonHappiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney HarrisWhat a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Robert E LeeThe greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances
Martha WashingtonThis life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.
Dan BrownWriting is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
Georges SimenonWhen a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SophoclesHow selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]
Adam SmithIf 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 paradise in a few years.
Bertrand RussellTo show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J B PriestleyHappiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.
Amy Lowell
Pick another category
|
|
|
| | Content Management System by:
|
