3 December 2020 Vivien Leigh 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.
3 December 2020 Taylor Swift I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
3 December 2020 Ellen Pompeo Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
3 December 2020 John Dewey Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
3 December 2020 Tryon Edwards Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
3 December 2020 Philo Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind.
3 December 2020 F. H. Bradley The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
3 December 2020 Ethel Percy Andrus We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
3 December 2020 Anna Pavlova Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
3 December 2020 Thomas Traherne Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.
3 December 2020 Fyodor Dostoevsky Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
3 December 2020 Daphne du Maurier Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
3 December 2020 John Buchan There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Unamuno There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
3 December 2020 Dennis Prager Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Jekyll The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
3 December 2020 Valerie Bertinelli Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
3 December 2020 Lucinda Williams People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
