Quotes and sayings about tag  #happiness

Quotes and sayings about tag  happiness

370 Quotes

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.

Hugh Laurie

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.

Ilona Andrews

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

Irving Berlin

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

J. Maarten Troost

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

J. Richard Lessor

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

Jack Gilbert

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

Jack Johnson

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

Jacqueline Kelly

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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.

Jane Austen

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Jane Austen

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

Jennifer Niven

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots

Jim Morrison

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

Joanne Harris

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Jodi Picoult

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Jodi Picoult

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Jodi Picoult

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

John Barrowman

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

John Chrysostom

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

John Irving

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

John Keats

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

John Lubbock

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