Top 35 Quotes About The Price Of Happiness
#4. Is the price of happiness not weighed in the cost of commitment, the value of life's experience in the plurality of existence and measured in a love shared?
Don Swann II
#5. The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
Sigmund Freud
#6. My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness. This is my moment. Don't take that away from me.
Beatriz Williams
#7. - Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!
George Gissing
#8. She felt such an intense sensation of happiness it frightened her, because surely there was a price to pay for this sort of bliss.
Liane Moriarty
#9. Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.
Ann Aguirre
#10. But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.
Aldous Huxley
#11. A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
#12. Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#13. Money is just that: money. It's not family. It's not happiness. It's not love.
Sarah Price
#14. Too often we let others stamp a price tag on us, and we accept their appraisal of our worth, forgetting we are in fact priceless.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#15. Happiness," he says, "is the price of profound thought."
"Who's that quote from?" I ask.
He winks. "Me.
Alice Oseman
#16. Who can wish for happiness that is bought at the price of reason, whose fleeting pleasures are at least followed by regret, if not remorse?
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#17. Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.
Richard Bach
#18. Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
Cornelia Funke
#19. Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
Cyril Connolly
#21. Everything has its price: sorrow for happiness; birth for love; death for birth.
Mikhail Shishkin
#22. Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
Adam Clarke
#23. To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
Erich Fromm
#24. Do you really want happiness? Then you will have to pay the price of humbling yourself at the foot of the cross and receiving Christ as Savior.
Billy Graham
#25. For nothing bestializes a being like the taste for eternal happiness, the search for eternal happiness at any price, and mademoiselle Lucifer is that slut who never wanted to abandon eternal happiness.
Antonin Artaud
#26. IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style
Tony Dovale
#27. Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?
Lenon Honor
#28. But only when it was too late did they realize the price they must pay for escaping their destiny. Every Happy Ever After was tainted. Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.
Diane Setterfield
#30. Though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
Ellen Glasgow
#31. The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#32. Most would think that I'm a god with every reason to be happy. But I'm a mistake God made. Too much power doesn't create happiness. It steals it. To have it all means there's no struggle and without having to pay a price, nothing has value. I wasn't gifted with powers. I was cursed with them.
Sarah Noffke
#33. If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.
Patrick Dixon
#34. It's time we recognize that, as the workplace is currently structured, a lot of women don't want to get to the top and stay there because they don't want to pay the price - in terms of their health, their well-being, and their happiness.
Arianna Huffington
#35. Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
Orson Scott Card
