Happiness Quotes - page 17

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me. (James Frey)
Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality. View quote
James Salter
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable. View quote
Augustus
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue. View quote
Xi Jinping
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression. View quote
Karel Appel
In the New World, happiness is enforced. View quote
Peter Porter (poet)
On happiness: "For me, it's harmony resulting from the cosmic wave, not the happiness resulting from the social wave" View quote
Vangelis
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. (Cicero)
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. View quote
Viktor Frankl
When 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. View quote
Thornton Wilder
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break. View quote
Chinua Achebe
Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die childless and intestate anywhere else, are not bound to be frustrated. View quote
Zygmunt Bauman
When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that. View quote
Mike Huckabee
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. View quote
Adam Weishaupt
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. View quote
Montesquieu
I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it? View quote
Julie Andrews
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. View quote
Nicki Minaj
All will be lost apart from happiness. (Jacques Prévert)
What 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. View quote
Robert E. Lee
She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. View quote
Edmund Burke
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. View quote
Henry James
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see--that's my idea of happiness. View quote
Henry James