H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.”
“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment.”
Source: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.”
Source: Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc
“Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature
“Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate when people say is it a comedy or a drama? My favorite movies are kind of both. Just like life, one day you're not crying all day, one day you're not laughing all day. I like to play characters that have that kind of balance, too.”
“Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.”
“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.”
“Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.”
“Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.”
“Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings”
“Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.”
Source: Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
“Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.”
“Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.”
“happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.”
“Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.”
“Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.”
“Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.”
Source: Burned
“Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.”
“Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”
Source: Rasselas, prince of Abissinia
“Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.”
“Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?”
Source: The waiting years
“Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude.”
“Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.”
Source: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
“Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.”
“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
Source: Chocolat
“Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?”
“Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.”
“Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."”
“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”
Source: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories
“Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”
Source: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life: Part II of Thoughts Out of Season
“Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.”
“Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.”
Source: Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.”
“Happiness? No, it's not there for me.”
“Happinesses, I don’t think they have to be mutually exclusive.”
Source: Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Overcrowded Heart
“Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”
“Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.”
Source: The Poetical Works with Notices of His Life, History of the Rowley Controversy, a Selection of His Letters and Notes Critical and Explanatory: I-II
“Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.”
“Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility?”
“Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.”
“happy all life for ever”
“Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.”
“Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.”
“Happy and giggly and bustly, the Hogfly ignored Hiccup’s strangled cries of:
“Hoglfy! Come back here, Hogfly!”
“Ooh!” it squeaked in delighted confusion. “You all look so lovely! How am I to choose which one of you to be my friend?”
It perched on the sinister swoop of the Razorwing’s nose.
“Where’s my biscuit? Are you married? Be my valentine…”
“I can’t bear to watch…” groaned Fishlegs.
It was like seeing an enthusiastic bunny rabbit trying to make friends with a heavily armed, bunny-eating cobra.”
Source: How to Betray a Dragon's Hero