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Happiness Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some…
- Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land…
- Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never…
- A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
- The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
- The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical…
- ...happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release...
- Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be…
- Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those…
- Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never…
- Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you
- Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach