HAPPINESS QUOTES IV

quotations about Happiness

We all seek happiness so eagerly, that in the pursuit we often lose that joyous sense of existence, and those quiet daily pleasures, the value of which our pride alone prevents us from acknowledging.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd


Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

The Life of Reason


Happiness consists in moderate desires, wants easily satisfied.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays, vol. II


Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

JOANNE HARRIS

Chocolat


The idea has been transmitted from generation to generation, that happiness is one large and beautiful precious stone--a single gem, so rare that all search for it is vain, all effort for it hopeless. It is not so. Happiness is a mosaic, composed of many smaller stones. Each taken apart and viewed singly, may be of little value; but when all are grouped together and judiciously combined and set, they form a graceful whole--a costly jewel. Trample not under foot, then, the little pleasures that appear along the daily path, while you look for some great joy which may never be attained.

T. L. HAINES & L. W. YAGGY

Royal Path of Life


Happiness and unhappiness
differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ...
Each carries the same water.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"Late Self-Portrait By Rembrandt"


The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The Conquest of Happiness


Happiness is not the portion of man.

VOLTAIRE

Candide


He is truly a happy man who can, upon all occasions, reconcile himself to his fortune.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


The universal human drive for instinctual gratification that Freud identifies with happiness is doomed to frustration. The external world not only fails to conform to our desires for uninterrupted immediacy, but the requirements of civilization also prohibit the very primal behavior ... that would allow for gratification.

DEAL WYATT HUDSON

Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction


Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

letter to Leopold Mozart, Nov. 29, 1777


Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Captain Brassbound's Conversion


Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land


From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

speech to the New York State Agricultural Association, Sep. 7, 1903


My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Acceptance is the key to everything.

MICHAEL J. FOX

Esquire, Dec. 2007


I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations


All that you ever wanted and that which you will ever want is within your reachable happiness radius.

STEVE NYAMBE

"Don't worry, happiness is yours to achieve", NewsDay, June 30, 2018


I'd shoot the Bluebird of Happiness if it squawked as loud as you.

MARSHAL JIM CROWN

"Knife in the Darkness", Cimarron Strip


He is the happiest man who can set the end of his life in connection with the beginning.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

PATRICIA BRIGGS

Moon Called