Quotes of: Happy Keyword

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Dinaw Mengestu

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

David Lee Roth

One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

Eric Idle

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Euripides

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

Edmund White

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

George Eliot

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.

Ginger Rogers

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

Godfrey Reggio

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Helen Keller

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Joseph Butler

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Joseph Butler

The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.

John Caudwell

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Julie Christie

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

John Leguizamo

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

Joe Mansueto