There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau |
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton |
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James Madison |
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James Madison |
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus |
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller |
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau |
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass |
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein |
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato |
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo |
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo |
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo |
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington |
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius |
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato |
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton |
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway |
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway |
