Famous Quotes

"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

William Cowper 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 William Cowper

• "The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."

• "Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

• "Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

• "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."

• "Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose."