“Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.”
Topic
happiness
983 quotes
Quotes, most loved first
“Never mind your happiness do your duty.”
“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”
“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.”
“You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.”
“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
“Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.”
“Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
“Don'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.”
“Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.”
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.”
“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.”
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.”
“It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.”
“Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”
“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”
“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”
“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”