983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.” — Carrie Underwood

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“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.” — George Eliot

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“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.” — George Eliot

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“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” — Henry Ford

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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.” — Albert Camus

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“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.” — Samuel Johnson

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“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” — Albert Camus

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“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.” — Samuel Johnson

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“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Where fear is, happiness is not.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“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

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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” — C. S. Lewis

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“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.” — Oscar Wilde

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“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” — Albert Einstein

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