Require Happiness Quotes

#1. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

William, Saroyan

#2. Why does a heart wear its eyes
into hell
like slivers of false sunshine

Fanny Howe

#3. We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Happiness and success require the highest possible optimism, with minimal expectations. Optimize without limits, and expect anything in particular.

Ammar Moussa

#6. I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

Graham Sutherland

#7. I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

Erykah Badu

#8. We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else.

Arthur Japin

#9. There is no need to always require a smile! Happiness is more of a look in the eyes, than a smile on the face!

C. JoyBell C.

#10. Excess of happiness and excess of sorrow, both are hazardous. Emotions require a balanced diet too.

Chandan Sharma

#11. You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a spirit. With these three working together, you can walk the high road that leads to achievement and happiness. But this will require effort and sacrifice and faith.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#12. Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.

William Shenstone

#13. Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Aristotle.

#14. Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

Frederick Buechner

#15. We both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. We can't have all these people seeing that thing on your wrist, can we?

Kristen Day

#17. Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?

Jennifer Pahlka

#18. If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#19. Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Diane Ackerman

#20. Yet many of the biggest slaughterhouses would sell their meat only to hamburger makers like Cargill if they agreed not to test their meat for E. coli until it was mixed together with shipments from other slaughterhouses.

Michael Moss

#21. Cancer. Rhymes with "dancer" and "you just shit your pants, sir".

Stephen King

#22. Oh, thank me again!" said the count; "tell me till you are weary, that I have restored you to happiness; you do not know how much I require this assurance.

Alexandre Dumas

#23. The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

Alexander Hamilton

#24. Happiness doesn't require words.

Eric Weiner

#25. All that children can properly require of their parents is that they tolerate their own muddled spectrum - that they neither insist on the lie of perfect happiness nor lapse into the slipshod brutality of giving up.

Andrew Solomon

#26. I can never watch you die again," I cried as tears streaked down my cheeks and fell onto him "I cannot do it. Are you listening?

Courtney Cole

#27. It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Napoleon Hill

#28. Happiness does not require an expanding economy

John Kenneth Galbraith

#29. I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.

Nicole Kidman

#30. But to appear happy when I am so miserable - Oh! who can require it?

Jane Austen

#31. You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.

Marcia Angell