Happiness Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image “[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness Wells
“[T]here is no way to measure the happiness of others, and it is always easy to call a situation that one would like to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the… — Jane Austen Copy Share
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its… — Mira Grant Copy Share
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
![“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6a8/jane-austen-39_happiness_i-t-is-well-to-have-as-many-holds-upon-h_967269.jpg)
![“[T]here is no way to measure the happiness of others, and it is always easy to call a situation that one would like to impose on others happy...” quote by Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba6/simone-de-beauvoir-407_happiness_t-here-is-no-way-to-measure-the-happines_1762444.jpg)
![“[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.” quote by Lydia M. Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c7e/lydia-m-child-9261_funny_u-sefulness-is-happiness-and-all-other-t_1627855.jpg)
![“[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.” quote by Jean Vanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/41b/jean-vanier-3367_happiness_happiness-comes-when-we-choose-to-be-who_1343161.jpg)
