HAPPINESS QUOTES XII

quotations about Happiness

Happiness is a hard master -- particularly other people's happiness.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World


Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

ARISTOTLE

Politics


Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude.

STEPHANIE DOWRICK

Choosing Happiness


Perhaps happiness is, was, and ever shall be the ultimate human end in every time and place.

DARRIN M. MCMAHON

Happiness: A History


So long as men strive for their individual happiness only, so long they shall strive for it in vain, because they strive for something which does not exist. When one will strive for all and all for one, then, and then only, general happiness will be possible. Until then men will remain savages, in constant war with each other, like fools destroying the very house that shelters them.

NORBERT LAFAYETTE SAVAY

Emancipation


We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

DANIEL GILBERT

Stumbling on Happiness


Worldly happiness is like a golden palace, but with no entrance.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

HUGH BLACK

Happiness


Do not procrastinate happiness. Enjoy every moment and find peace with yourself.

ANNET KATUSIIME

"What defines your happiness?", Daily Monitor, July 3, 2018


Happiness ... does not consist in the gratification of desires, nor in that freedom from care, that imaginary state of repose, to which most men look so anxiously forward, and with the prospect of which their labors are lightened, but which is more languid, irksome, and insupportable than all the toils of active life. True, the objects we pursue with so much ardor are insignificant in themselves, and never fulfil our extravagant expectations; but this by no means proves them unworthy of pursuit. Properly to estimate their value, we must take into view all the pleasurable emotions they awaken prior to attainment.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

Hints on Success in Life


Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

An Art of Living


Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


I found myself in possession of happiness once more, and the evils I had lately suffered, gave me uncommon relish for it.

ETHAN ALLEN

A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity


My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

AYN RAND

Anthem


The spider's most attenuated thread
Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie
On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts


There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

RENé DESCARTES

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes


To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Brisingr


What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?

RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE

Learning


A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

The Architecture of Happiness


Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?

ALBERT CAMUS

Caligula