Happiness Quotes - Page 142

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

Better to be happy than wise.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness.

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

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.

The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

As I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love.