Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: humor happiness money research Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Tags: news reading knowledge happiness newspapers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: happiness pursuit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. —J. D. Salinger More about this quote Tags: happiness suspicion paranoia plotting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness. —Cassia Leo in Unmasked More about this quote Tags: happiness family genes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it? —Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere More about this quote Tags: life happiness bad good belief sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is what the world honors: wealth, eminence, long life, a good name. This is what the world finds happiness in: a life of ease, rich food, fine clothes, beautiful sights, sweet sounds. People who can't get these things fret a great deal and are afraid, wear themselves out rushing around on business, spend night and day scheming and scrutinizing. Man lives his life in company with worry, and if he lives a long time, then he has spent that much time worrying. This is a callous way to treat the body. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Tags: life fear ease clothes happiness wealth worry business honor food Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept. —Jean Cocteau More about this quote Tags: love hate happiness secret scandal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: happiness want deprivation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Tags: happiness wealth contentment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. —Helen Keller More about this quote Tags: purpose happiness fidelity gratification Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. —14th Dalai Lama More about this quote Tags: others happiness compassion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it . . . a sure sense that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it. —John Ruskin More about this quote Tags: success happiness work need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad. —Lindsey Kelk in I Heart New York More about this quote Tags: happiness sadness feelings numbness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. —Dale Carnegie More about this quote Tags: success happiness want Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email