Famous Quotes

"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle."

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

• "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

  John Barrymore on Happiness

• "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

  Dalai Lama on Happiness

• "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

  Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

• "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

  Martha Washington on Happiness

• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."

• "Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art."

• "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."

• "Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

• "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."