983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

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“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.” — Mark Twain

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“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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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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“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.” — Alice Meynell

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“Happiness is no laughing matter.” — Richard Whately

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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“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

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“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

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“When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.” — Sophocles

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“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.” — Johnny Carson

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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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“In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.” — Franz Kafka

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“A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.” — Josh Billings

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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.” — Francis Bacon

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“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.” — William Feather

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“The will of man is his happiness.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.” — Sophocles

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“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” — Aristotle

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“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

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“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.” — Aldous Huxley

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