Happiness Quote by Honore de Balzac

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

— Honore de Balzac

“Happiness is relative for each person and their way of life. So it's better to think of your own happiness than of someone's misfortune!”

— Masumi Seki

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity;…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

— Stendhal

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

No person is either as happy or as unhappy as they imagine. Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.

— Ash Sweeney

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

“Majority of our unhappiness comes from others.Someone did something or someone did not do something. What if we change our wiring to associate our…

— Drishti Bablani

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

— Mary Astell

“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble.…

— Rachel Kadish

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld