Jonathan Swift Quotes
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
Jonathan Swift
Quotes to Explore
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
Francesca Annis
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
K. Flay
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
Samuel Adams
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
Viktor E. Frankl
I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
Natascha McElhone
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.
Maeve Binchy
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac D'Israeli
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
Daniel Gilbert
As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
Dan Stevens
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Zhuangzi
Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
Oswald Chambers
Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.
Brian Tracy
