983 private quotes tagged happiness

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.” — Joseph Addison

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“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.” — Chanakya

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“I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.” — Jamie Lee Curtis

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“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides

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“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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“The groundwork of all happiness is health.” — Leigh Hunt

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“I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.” — Julia Ward Howe

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“Happiness lies first of all in health.” — George William Curtis

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“While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.” — Bo Bennett

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“There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.” — Euripedes

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“No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” — Barbara de Angelis

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“The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.” — Sergey Brin

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“What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.” — Chris Evans

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“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.” — Dolley Madison

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“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.” — Debbi Fields

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“Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” — Jane Austen

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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” — Theodore Isaac Rubin

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“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?” — Christopher Hampton

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“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

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“I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.” — Dominic Monaghan

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“So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.” — Alastair Campbell

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