Happiness Quotes

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to they ask me to.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just…

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Happiness is only real when shared.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.