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“Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.”
Jacob M. Appel (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.”
Og Mandino (1923–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it.”
Keshia Chante (born 1988) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Official Website (2009)
“My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.”
Keshia Chante (born 1988) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Official Website (2009)
“Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element.”
Henry Giles (1809–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God, when he created the human species, wished their happiness; and made for them the provision which he has made, with that view, and for that purpose.”
William Paley (1743–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug.”
Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine. It doesn't last very long.”
“Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.”
John Angell James (1785–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe in all-wise-and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individuals highest fulfillment, greatest happiness, and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will.”
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.”
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The true love is a state of half-madness, of some kind of soft obsession, ruling a so delicate kind of feeling that can lead a person from the greatest happiness to the most dreadful pain.”
Lima Barreto (1881–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you are seeking happiness through your action, you are always enslaved to the external situation. As long as you are enslaved to the external situation, you will always be in some level of suffering because the outside situation is never going to be hundred percent in your control.”
“The Creator will not appear to have been unjust when, according to the above principles, he placed everyone in a position proportionate to his merit; nor will the happiness or unhappiness of anyone's birth, or any condition whatever that may fall to his lot, be supposed to be due to chance;”
Origen (184–254) said by 254 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She felt like drawing this scene, but knew it was the type of moment she couldn’t capture on a page. It wasn’t about content or composition, but the pleasure of living. The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.”
Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The science of mine and thine—the science of justice—is the science of all human rights; of all a man’s rights of person and property; of all his rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your success and happiness depend on your willingness to help others solve their problems.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the secret of success - "TB Joshua Sends Pastor Chris Member To School" All Voices (August 25 2009)
“Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.”
Galen (129–300) said by 300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations, (1884), p. 223.
“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness.”
Tove Jansson (1914–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
Freya Stark (1893–1993) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Journey's Echo (1963), p. 161.
“You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.”
Cyrus the Great (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards, p. 290
“Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth — these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.”
Cyrus the Great (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War (2006) p. 116, also quoted in "9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great" at Forbes.com (19 April 2012)
“What I do with the majority of my free time is help people get off drugs. It’s nice to just sit and listen to them talk about what’s going on in their life and not think about what’s going on with me for a while. Success is not money, it’s happiness. Interview with DJ AM”
Adam Goldstein (1973–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ghetto" (1954)
“At most, the gods gave only a little happiness; the rest was merely existence.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," instead of "life, liberty and property." With that vagueness, Jefferson undermined the foundation of civilization: private property right.”
Ilana Mercer wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.”
Diana Ross (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve no regrets in my personal and professional life. Being a spiritual person, I believe whatever happens, happens for the good. I simply follow what dad says, ‘With music, you can reach out and spread happiness.’”
Yuvan Shankar Raja (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.”
William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Walking back to happiness with you, Said farewell to loneliness I knew, Laid aside foolish pride, Learnt the truth from tears I cried.”
Mike Hawker (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's an obligation to try every route to happiness.”
Martin Firrell (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dearly beloved We are gathered here today 2 get through this thing called life.Electric word life It means forever and that's a mighty long time But I'm here 2 tell U There's something else: The afterworld.A world of never ending happiness U can always see the sun, day or night.”
Prince (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.”
Ai Weiwei (born 1957) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ai Weiwei. “The Olympics Are a Propaganda Show.” Spiegel, January 29, 2008.
“It is absurd that so much money has been wasted on manipulating public opinion, on simulating emotion. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. “Made-in-China” goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.”
“It’s hard to recover. You become not so innocent. You become, in a way, more sophisticated, which I think you shouldn’t. We should all have more simple happiness . . . . You become bitter.”
“I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.”
Rita Hayworth (1918–1987) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: AP reports, (November 1, 1963)
“Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.”
Dick Francis (1920–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During the last three centuries, there has been, by virtue of the Inquisition, a greater enjoyment of peace, and happiness, in Spain, than in the other nations of Europe.”
Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No future can be beautiful which involves an economy that violates the rights of future generations, that degrades fundamental planetary systems in any way, or that fails to offer every human being a basic share of safety, dignity and happiness.”
Alex Steffen (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.”
Hugh Blair (1718–1800) said by 1800 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It appears to me that, even within the recollection of living men, the Christian faith has come to be less and less regarded as a commanding and mighty power from heaven, a voice of authority, a law of holy life, but more and more as an easy going guide to future enjoyment, to a universal happiness and an indiscriminate salvation.”
Frederic Dan Huntington (1819–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness—temporal, spiritual, and eternal — consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.”
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (1648–1717) said by 1717 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A good governance paradigm that limits excesses of human nature and ensures an atmosphere of happiness and productivity by promoting reason and dignity is required.”
Nayef Al-Rodhan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The battle... is for the minds of men; the outcome... does not depend on numbers of missiles, but on the question of which system can raise life higher, give more happiness... and raise the great undeveloped masses out of their misery. ...Now there are two parties: democracy and communism. Why not embark on a noble competition by showing which... can create a better, freer, happier life?”
Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal’s paradise.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid.”
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in “Don Pañong – Genius" by A.V.H. Hartendorp in Philippine Magazine (September 1929), p. 211.
“Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!”
Nelson Rodrigues (1912–1980) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As 30 melhores entrevistas da Playboy: agosto 1975-agosto 2005" - Página 132, de Luiz Rivoiro - 2005 - 313 páginas (November 1979)