HAPPINESS QUOTES II

quotations about Happiness

Happiness quote

Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

BARBARA O'NEAL

The Lost Recipe for Happiness


Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics


Happiness doesn't care how you get there.

ERNIE J. ZELINSKI

How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free


If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

DANIEL WATERS

Heathers


Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

JOHNNY CARSON

Happiness Is a Dry Martini


Like all human emotions, feelings of happiness don't last. No matter how hard we try to hold on to them, they slip away every time. And as we shall see, a life spent in pursuit of those good feelings is, in the long term, deeply unsatisfying. In fact, the harder we chase after pleasurable feelings, the more we are likely to suffer from anxiety and depression.

RUSS HARRIS

The Happiness Trap


Happiness is an inside job. We cannot rely on anyone else to be responsible for our happiness.

MICHAEL RICE

Happiness Is Just a Bowl of Choices


Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

STEPHANIE DOWRICK

Choosing Happiness


If you would have your home and your surroundings happy, be happy. You can transform everything around you if you will transform yourself.

JAMES ALLEN

Above Life's Turmoil


Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

A Moment's Liberty, Apr. 20, 1925


Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.

JEAN LIEDLOFF

The Continuum Concept


The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men


One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere.

DANIEL GILBERT

Stumbling on Happiness


Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Other Old Testament Characters

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When happiness was a matter of pleasure, and pleasure a matter of taste, one could be happy simply by rolling in filth.

DARRIN M. MCMAHON

Happiness: A History


Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

CHARLES DICKENS

Nicholas Nickleby


It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

JEREMY BENTHAM

A Fragment on Government

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Happiness, like every other emotional state, has blindness and insensibility to opposing facts given it as its instinctive weapon for self-protection against disturbance. When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in. He must ignore it; and to the bystander he may then seem perversely to shut his eyes to it and hush it up.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Varieties of Religious Experience


Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

The Essential Wyndham Lewis


But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

As You Like It