Happiness Quotes

"He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors"

Olympia Brown, Activist

"When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me"

Pia Toscano, Musician

"Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night"

Joyce Grenfell, Actress

"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!"

Lawrence G. Lovasik, Clergyman

"Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself"

Margaret Cho, Comedian

"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison"

Georges Bataille, Writer

"The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of"

Gilbert Murray, Diplomat

"We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?"

Dan Savage, Writer

"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, Businessman

"I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing"

Dan Savage, Writer

"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness"

Philip Kaufman, Director

"I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people"

Eddie Albert, Actor

"I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day"

Paul Thomas Anderson, Director

"Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you"

Aron Ralston, Celebrity

"The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness"

Jean-Paul Marat, Politician

"It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil"

James Smithson, Scientist

"The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world"

Leni Riefenstahl, Director

"If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied"

George Westinghouse, Inventor

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves"

Wilhelm von Humboldt, Educator

"I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers"

Alfred Day Hershey, Scientist

"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness"

Tracy Kidder, Author

"It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it"

Simon Travaglia, Author

"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness"

Harold Kushner, Clergyman

"The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness"

Merrill Markoe, Author

"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity"

Robert Trout, Journalist

"I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness"

John Howe, Artist

"For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable"

Meir Kahane, Clergyman

"Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all"

Russell M. Nelson, Clergyman

"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it"

Marguerite Duras, Novelist

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