Famous Quotes

"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."

Henry David Thoreau 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 Henry David Thoreau

• "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

• "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

• "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

• "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

• "The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."