Quotes with happiness

Quotes 461 till 480 of 596.

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
  - +

   0
• The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

  Jackie Joyner Kersee
   
  - +

   0
• The right to happiness is fundamental.

  Anna Pavlova
  Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
  - +

   0
• The right to happiness is fundamental:
  Men live so little time and die alone.

  Bertolt Brecht
  German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
  - +

   0
• The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

  John Keats
  English poet (1795 - 1821)
  - +

   0
• The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

  Jeremy Bentham
  English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
  - +

   0
• The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
  - +

   0
• The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

  Thucydides
  Athenian historian and general (460 - 400)
  - +

   0
• The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

  Sir James Matthew Barrie
  British playwright (1860 - 1937)
  - +

   0
• The secret of happiness is something to do.

  John Burroughs
  American writer (1837 - 1921)
  - +

   0
• The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
  - +

   0
• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Francis H. Bradley
  British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
  - +

   0
• The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.

  Contarini Fleming (1832) III, ch 1

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
  - +

   0
• The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
  

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
  - +

   0
• The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

  Milan Kundera
  Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
  - +

   0
• The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo
  French writer (1802 - 1885)
  - +

   0
• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo
  French writer (1802 - 1885)
  - +

   0
• The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
  - +

   0
• The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

  Engleby (2007)

  Sebastian Faulks
  British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
  - +

   0
• The three grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

  Alexander Chalmers
  Scottish writer and journalist (1759 - 1834)
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• extinguished
• unhappiness
• conviction
• essentials
• interests
• reactions

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations