HAPPINESS QUOTES II
quotations about Happiness
Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.
BARBARA O'NEAL
The Lost Recipe for Happiness
Happiness doesn't care how you get there.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free
Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.
STEPHANIE DOWRICK
Choosing Happiness
Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
A Moment's Liberty, Apr. 20, 1925
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
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
It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
JEREMY BENTHAM
A Fragment on Government
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 the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
The Essential Wyndham Lewis
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 a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
CHARLES DICKENS
Nicholas Nickleby
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
American Note-Books, Aug. 22, 1837