Brought Happiness Quotes

#1. After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Paulo Coelho

#2. Age brought wisdom, but it also brought a genuine gratitude for the happiness of sharing life with someone as much liked as loved.

Colleen McCullough

#3. Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

Aaron Spelling

#4. How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Jane Austen

#5. Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him.

Gary Thomas

#6. Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their
children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must
understand that their children are not their property; that their children are
entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.

Graham Masterton

#7. In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

Dorothy Richardson

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

Edmund White

#9. Progress has not brought about universal happiness ...

Adam Leith Gollner

#10. David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men ever brought back more happiness from the stars? Will they ever?

Leigh Brackett

#11. My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

Gail Porter

#12. We celebrate, we create, as citizens of Shatter. We hold a bond of unending happiness. This planet, at the edge of the galaxy, is our testament to life.
Our dragons, in the sky, came from the stars. They brought many new things to explore.
From the Blessings of the Father Dragon, a poem

L'Poni Baldwin

#13. False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Alexander Pope

#14. Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

Barbara Hutton

#15. Try to find something that makes you happy. Your life is not going to get easier once Queen Levana is your wife. If you had even one small thing that brought you happiness, or hope that things could someday be better, then maybe that would be enough to sustain you.

Marissa Meyer

#16. All these men recognized what they themselves valued, and lived according to these values regardless of their relationship to the values of their community. Each lived according to what brought them happiness and peace rather than commonplace prescriptions of the multitudes.

Chris Matakas

#17. I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

David Lynch

#18. It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

John Lubbock

#19. It's clear: if there is no good reason for enviousness, the denominator of the fraction of happiness is brought to zero and the fraction is transformed into a glorious infinity.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#20. Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

Mike Tyson

#21. Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

Paula Deen

#22. The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

Calvin Coolidge

#23. The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

Clayton Christensen

#24. Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.

Jackie Kennedy

#25. Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Red Skelton

#26. Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy.

Hermann Hesse

#27. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.

Jocelyn Gibb

#28. The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Jim Harrison

#29. Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.

Richard Branson

#30. A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

Jayne Mansfield

#31. I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Giacomo Casanova

#32. I can't begin to describe how you've touched my heart. You've brought so much joy and happiness to my life. I never thought I would ever be able to love anyone as much as I do you. You've consumed my very being, completing my soul.

Trin Denise

#33. fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet

L. Frank Baum

#34. I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.

John D. Rockefeller

#35. I had no hope," I sobbed. "You made me hope, you brought me back to life, to happiness and love that I'd never dared to dream of anymore.

Lucian Bane

#36. I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

Meryl Streep

#37. Bold and bright, a trilogy of happiness would continue for a summer's duration and into autumn. It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.
Hard times were coming.
Like a parade.

Markus Zusak

#38. He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him.

Gustave Flaubert

#39. Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.

Dalai Lama

#40. Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from ... Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

Jane Austen

#41. Happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#42. The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

Kate Winslet