Country Quote by Paul Sweeney

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

— Honore de Balzac

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little…

— Ernest Dimnet

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success…

— Marianne Williamson

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

— Iris Murdoch

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

— Ernest Dimnet

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

— Boethius

Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in…

— Jim Rohn

True happiness is everyone's good, not personal comfort when many, too many live in poverty and despair.

— Mariana Fulger

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

“Many lives are disrupted by tragic accidents, and even the most fortunate are subjected to stresses of various kinds. Yet such blows do not…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

— Boethius

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

— Benjamin Franklin