Famous Quotes

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."

J. B. Priestley 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 J. B. Priestley

• "We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

• "There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."

• "Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch."

• "The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence."

• "The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."