Happiness Quote by John Mason Brown Download Open image “The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.” — John Mason Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness True happiness
There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
True happiness not only embodies material or financial wealth but finding your true purpose in life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True happiness resides in not getting what you desire...but desiring what you get. — Charlie Peters Copy Share Image
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Happiness is a byproduct of helping others. No man ever finds happiness by thinking of himself. True happiness comes when we lose ourselves in… — Royden G. Derrick Copy Share Image
Happiness worth having is the warm glow that comes from investing ourselves in the world around us, come what may. It cannot be passively… — Nick Baylis Copy Share Image
Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. — John Mason Brown 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,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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