HAPPINESS QUOTES VI

quotations about Happiness

Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

JONATHAN HAIDT

The Happiness Hypothesis


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"


It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

An Art of Living


Who would dare speak the word "happiness" in these tortured times? Yet millions today continue to seek happiness. These years have been for them only a prolonged postponement, at the end of which they hope to find that the possibility for happiness has been renewed. Who could blame them? And who could say that they are wrong? What would justice be without the chance for happiness? What purpose would freedom serve, if we had to live in misery?

ALBERT CAMUS

Combat, Dec. 22, 1944


What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

Méditations Poétiques


Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


Gold, gold! It may not buy happiness, but it can buy you a better state of misery, that's for sure!

COUNT DUCKULA

"Ghostly Gold", Count Duckula


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

PATRICIA BRIGGS

Moon Called


Happiness never becomes a habit.

MARILYN MONROE

My Story


The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Notebooks, Aug. 16, 1916


Happiness does not depend upon surroundings, but upon disposition.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke


Your happiness is a one person job -- it begins and ends with you.

JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE

100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love


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


Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

MAXIM GORKY

attributed, Know Your Limits


Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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


In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations


As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

The Beloved Vagabond


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