Quotes of: Happy-person Keyword

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

James Altucher

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Julian Baggini

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Jilly Cooper

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

J. B. Priestley

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

Kim Cattrall

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

Kenny Rogers

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.

Lynda Barry

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Leon Kass

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Marcel Proust

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Maurice Sendak

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Omar Bongo

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Percy Ross

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

Pierre Salinger