Happiness Quotes - page 8

Every age has its happiness and troubles. (Jeanne Calment)
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness. View quote
Francis Hutcheson
An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences. View quote
Shreya Ghoshal
Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. View quote
Storm Jameson
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. View quote
José Martí
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. View quote
William James
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. View quote
Blaise Pascal
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. (Vivien Leigh)
Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
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. View quote
George Eliot
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. View quote
John Dewey
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. View quote
Ayn Rand
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. View quote
William Ellery Channing
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. View quote
Marguerite Duras
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. View quote
Kanye West
Beauty is the promise of happiness. View quote
Edmund Burke
Justice is happiness according to virtue. (John Rawls)
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others. View quote
Samuel Johnson
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Independence is happiness. View quote
Susan B. Anthony