Happiness Quotes

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Euripides

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Friedrich Schiller

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Jamie Lee Curtis

When you give as a family, not only are you sharing the happiness that giving brings you by watching it translate into positive change, but you are also transmitting your giving values to your children by engaging them in the giving process itself.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

James Madison

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

Paul Ryan

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Polly Toynbee

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Samuel Johnson

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Victoria Woodhull

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

William Beveridge

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

William H. Seward

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

William Weld

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

Arthur Ashe

The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, ...

Abhishek Bachchan

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Abu Bakr

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce