HAPPINESS QUOTES V

quotations about Happiness

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


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


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


You've got to be responsible for your own happiness -- you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel.

JULIAN BARNES

Talking It Over

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Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

JOHNNY CARSON

Happiness Is a Dry Martini


Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


Happiness does not depend upon surroundings, but upon disposition.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke


I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves--such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The World As I See It


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

MARSHAL JIM CROWN

"Knife in the Darkness", Cimarron Strip


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

PATRICIA BRIGGS

Moon Called


How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Varieties of Religious Experience


Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away,
Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day,
The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth--
To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

BHARTRHARI

"The Praise of the Wise Man"


But for now, happiness throws stones.
It guards itself.
I wait.

MARKUS ZUSAK

Getting the Girl


The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

ZIG ZIGLAR

Staying Up


False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

JOHN LUBBOCK

Peace and Happiness


For no man lives, who always happy is.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearnings after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


We live in a feel-good society, a culture thoroughly obsessed with finding happiness. And what does that society tell us to do? To eliminate "negative" feelings and accumulate "positive" ones in their place. It's a nice theory, and on the surface it seems to make sense. After all, who wants to have unpleasant feelings. But here's the catch: the things we generally value most in life bring with them a whole range of feelings, both pleasant and unpleasant. For example, in an intimate long-term relationship, although you will experience wonderful feelings such as love and joy, you will also inevitably experience disappointment and frustration.... It's pretty well impossible to create a better life if you're not prepared to have some uncomfortable feelings.

RUSS HARRIS

The Happiness Trap


I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

KARL HILTY

Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life