Famous Quotes

"Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge."

Polly Toynbee 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 Polly Toynbee

• "People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."

• "But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."

• "But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."

• "But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."

• "Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying."