Top 100 Their Happiness Quotes
#1. It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#2. Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break.
Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly
#4. Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
Honore De Balzac
#5. It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain
#7. Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
Alan Cohen
#8. But when you cared about someone, you made sacrifices. You put their happiness first.
Sabrina James
#9. It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
Joy Bryant
#10. There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone
John Stuart Mill
#11. That is their happiness: they see all life without observing it. They're buried in it like crabs in mud. Except men, of course. I am not in a mood, just yet, to talk of men.
John Gardner
#12. They were living in some kind of movie projected by this intellectual, electromechanical machine that had been created for their happiness, saying: PARADISE PARADISE PARADISE but which had inadvertently shut them out from direct experience of life itself - and from each other.
Robert M. Pirsig
#13. If our rest was here, most of God's providences must be useless. Should God lose the glory of his church's miraculous deliverances, and of the fall of his enemies, that men may have their happiness here?
Richard Baxter
#14. Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of
Lauren Beukes
#15. I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.
Muhammad Yunus
#16. For most people to be happy, there has to be a person, place, or thing involved in their happiness. In true happiness, there are no things involved. It's a natural state. You will abide in that state forever.
Robert Adams
#17. Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing.
Kate Chopin
#18. It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to ... You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#19. Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#20. I have a lot of gay friends, and some have not come out, and ... it just hurts me that there are some people who can't feel like they can be themselves because society is not accepting to them. I literally see their happiness deprived.
Tia Mowry
#21. Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.
Max Beerbohm
#22. Anna has a stab of jealousy - she is thrilled for them, yet can't help but envy their happiness. Don't be ungracious, she tells herself. It is not your time; it is theirs. Lou is so lovely; she deserves to be happy.
Sarah Rayner
#23. Never begrudge others their happiness. Who knows when happiness will be short lived?
Nancy B. Brewer
#24. Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#25. 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
#26. And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.
E. M. Forster
#27. People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness, that is to say, dependent on form. They don't realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe. It changes constantly.
Eckhart Tolle
#28. May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.
Marquis De Lafayette
#29. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness.
Edmund Burke
#30. Ever been so happy for someone and so aware of how lonely their happiness makes you feel at the same time?
Carey Heywood
#31. No matter how hard you try ... you just can't buy other people their happiness. It must be installed inside them first!
Timothy Pina
#32. First, people were not thinking about what they were doing 47 per cent of the time. Second, people were unhappier when their minds were wandering than they were not. And third, what people were thinking was a better predictor of their happiness than what they were doing.
David Michie
#33. Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.
John Burroughs
#34. A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.
Francis Atterbury
#35. The music world taught me a lot.It taught me how much happiness it could take from you. J. Cole said it in that interview: People forget their happiness and what makes them happy. Like, what you really wanted to do it for.
Fetty Wap
#36. I am not one of those young ladies who are so daring to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.
Jane Austen
#37. Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.
Anton Chekhov
#38. There are three powers, three powers alone, able to conquer and to hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their happiness-those forces are miracle, mystery and authority.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#39. There's less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank," Bailey said. "They'll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark's.
Dave Eggers
#40. But in all times men have been prone to believe that their happiness and well-being were to be secured by means of institutions rather than by their own conduct. Hence the value of legislation as an agent in human advancement has always been greatly over-estimated
Anonymous
#41. My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.
Katy Perry
#42. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
Adam Smith
#43. Loving someone selflessly would mean sharing their happiness whether you are part of that happiness or not.
Sandhya Jane
#44. In my experience, women underestimate the effect that their happiness has on the men in their lives.
Shawn T. Smith
#45. The redeemed, through all eternity, will never taste one of the pleasures of sin; yet their happiness is complete. It would be my greatest happiness to be from this moment entirely like them.
Andrew A. Bonar
#46. Do you think there's ever any joy for people who carve their happiness out of someone else's hurt?
Bette Lee Crosby
#47. She couldn't believe all their happiness had nearly been taken away from them.
Vicky Pattison
#49. Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#50. The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
Esther Duflo
#51. Courage - that's the secret! If only people who are in love weren't always so afraid of risking their happiness by looking it in the eyes.
Edith Wharton
#52. Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.
William Loughton Smith
#53. Love isn't about forcing submission,Grif. Its about ... doing for the one you love. It's about their happiness over our own.
Belinda McBride
#54. Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.
Husam Wafaei
#55. It is when children start to question their happiness that they lose it and grow up.
Elizabeth Goudge
#56. When you love someone, you want their happiness even when it's not going to involve you. Even when it depends on your lack of involvement.
Mhairi McFarlane
#57. Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels.
Joseph Fort Newton
#58. We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.
Jean De La Bruyere
#59. I'm sick of all the pressure. I'm sick of feeling like I'll ruin all their happiness if I don't do what they want me to do.
Holly Bourne
#60. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli
#61. Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.
J.C. Ryle
#62. The workshop is a fresh approach that helps employees increase their productivity while improving their happiness and attitude in the workplace. As you might guess, The Miracle Morning workshop is appropriately done in the morning, usually before the actual conference begins.
Hal Elrod
#63. what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to give her those thousand nothings.
Alexandre Dumas
#64. Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
Joyce Carol Oates
#65. However, the path of God is unknown and deep are the waters. Often do we see what is pleasing, take a sudden turn of providence, that deprives even the most Godly of their happiness. We should not fear theses changes and trust that all things work for the greater good.
Nancy B. Brewer
#67. So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
Arthur Hiller
#68. Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
Albert Camus
#69. Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace
the many inquiries
the fond regrets and thrilling hopes
it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.
George Henry Lewes
#70. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#71. 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
#72. Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
Marianne Williamson
#73. Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.
Banana Yoshimoto
#74. Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness; you will get your own happiness.
Pravin Agarwal
#75. Everyone deserved at least one friend they could trust with their secrets and fears. With their guilt, with their happiness. Everyone deserved a person who could look into their eyes and say, "You're enough. You're perfect, scars and all." I thought Tristan deserved that more than most, though.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#76. It's an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.
Patricia A. McKillip
#77. I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
Joni Mitchell
#78. But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
Victoria Jackson
#79. People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.
Leo Tolstoy
#80. Sometimes the best gift you can give someone is the freedom to pursue their happiness.
S. K. Nicholls
#81. The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.
Dale Carnegie
#82. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#83. Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
Marquis De Lafayette
#85. Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton
#86. Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#87. He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.
Leo Tolstoy
#88. The lovers ... dreamed of a world that was like a jewel box without a jewel - a paradise waiting for them ... to fill it with their happiness
Laini Taylor
#89. We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.
Dalai Lama
#90. And so this paradise was like a jewel box without a jewel. There it lay, day after day ... , and waited for lovers to find it and fill it with their happiness
Laini Taylor
#91. He's no king," I said. "Rulers aren't made just because they sit on the throne. A true king serves his people, protects them, and sees to their happiness if he can.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#92. As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.
L. Ron Hubbard
#93. Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
Conor Oberst
#94. I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their happiness and well-being. Self-preservation is the first law. I must start trying to obey the law.
Helen Van Slyke
#95. You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia L. Roberts
#96. No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
John Calvin
#97. Have you ever been in love with someone so badly that you'd do anything for them? That no matter what you want, you want their happiness more?
Alma Katsu
#98. I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.
Kris Jenner
#99. If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will of God, in which the angels find all their delight and men all their happiness.
Vincent De Paul
#100. People have an inborn disposition that's set within a certain range, but they can boost themselves to the top of their happiness range or push themselves down to the bottom of their happiness range by their actions.
Gretchen Rubin
