Happiness Quotes
Quotes about Happiness
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- “The longing for guidance, for love and succor, provides the stimulus for the growth of a social or moral conception of G...” — Albert Einstein
- “What the inventive genius of mankind has bestowed upon us in the last hundred years could have made human life care free...” — Albert Einstein
- “Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospel...” — C. S. Lewis
- “But presently I began to bubble with happiness. No, my daughters' absence did not sadden me at all-quite the reverse. I ...” — Simone De Beauvoir
- “It is in order that each of you may have through this free government which we have enjoyed, an open field and a fair ch...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “(Who are some of the writers you enjoy reading and re-reading?) SK: Dostoevsky and Simon De Beauvoir. Since I was a youn...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last ...” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Walking gives movement to every portion of the body, and ensures vigorous circulation of the blood; for, when we walk fa...” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “Would that all excellent books were foundlings, without father or mother, that so it might be, we could glorify them, wi...” — Herman Melville
- “No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It fascinated me the firs...” — Walt Disney
- “But what of the poor Ghosts who never get into the omnibus at all?' 'Everyone who wishes it does. Never fear. There are ...” — C. S. Lewis
- “For what comes is Judgment: happy are those whom it finds labouring in their vocations, whether they were merely going o...” — C. S. Lewis
- “I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual ...” — Henry Ford
- “The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whet...” — George Orwell
- “(Who are some of the writers you enjoy reading and re-reading?) SK: Dostoevsky and Simone De Beauvoir. Since I was a you...” — Simone De Beauvoir
- “Governor Thomas was so pleas'd with the Construction of this Stove, as describ'd in it, that he offer'd to give me a Pat...” — Benjamin Franklin
- “When the green garden, still wet with dew, is all sparkling in the sun and looks radiant with happiness, when there is a...” — Anton Chekhov
- “Gandhi was a completely unofficial man. He recognized the gulf that lay between the enjoyment of freedom and the exercis...” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Most scientists are happiest when they are making clear progress, solving some perhaps small but well-defined and signif...” — Albert Einstein
- “The basic pleasure in the phonetic elements of a language and in the style of their patterns, and then in a higher dimen...” — J. R. R. Tolkien
- “We need, in the interest of the community at large, a rigid system of game laws rigidly enforced, and it is not only adm...” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “It is extremely difficult for me to have to differ from Mahatma Gandhi in regard to any matter of principle or method. ....” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “If you are tired of the real landscape, look at it in a mirror. By putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads ...” — C. S. Lewis
- “Tell mother that however dogs and samovars might behave themselves, winter comes after summer, old age after youth, and ...” — Anton Chekhov
- “For what man has sought for is, indeed, neither pain nor pleasure, but simply Life. Man has sought to live intensely, fu...” — Oscar Wilde
- “We are African, and we happened to be in America. We're not American. We are people who formerly were Africans who were ...” — Malcolm X
- “People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true,...” — Bertrand Russell
- “Seeing me, she uttered a cry of joy, and probably, if we had not been in the park, would have thrown herself on my neck....” — Anton Chekhov
- “The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. T...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood. I had a very happy childhood. I ...” — Agatha Christie
- “I would have liked to convince my father that I had found what he had been looking for, the ineffable something he had l...” — Bertrand Russell
- “How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly. The dream embraced thousands of years and left in me...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as ...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life o...” — Anton Chekhov
- “If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, w...” — Franz Kafka
- “A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state int...” — Nelson Mandela
- “What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like, "What does it matter so long as th...” — C. S. Lewis
- “Lo, there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing awfulness, ...” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “You are all probably taking literature classes in which the professors teach how to get behind authors' words to determi...” — Robert Frost
- “I give you joy of having left Winchester. Now you may own how miserable you were there; now it will gradually all come o...” — Jane Austen
- “All honour to those who can abnegate for themselves the personal enjoyment of life, when by such renunciation they contr...” — John Stuart Mill
- “For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of pr...” — Bertrand Russell
- “[W]orking men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous, and as you added t...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing ...” — Bertrand Russell
- “In reference to you, colored people, let me say God has made you free. Although you have been deprived of your God-given...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the ho...” — Albert Einstein
- “Nevertheless even under these [misfortunes] the force of nobility shines out, when a man bears calmly many great disaste...” — Aristotle
- “We are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty inheritance... We have engrossed to ourselves an altogeth...” — Winston Churchill
- “We, practical revolutionaries, initiating our own struggle, simply fulfill laws foreseen by Marx, the scientist. We are ...” — Karl Marx