HAPPINESS QUOTES VI

quotations about Happiness

Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.

JONATHAN HAIDT

The Happiness Hypothesis


If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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


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


Happiness never becomes a habit.

MARILYN MONROE

My Story


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


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


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

JOHN LUBBOCK

Peace and Happiness


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


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"


That thou art happy, owe to God;
That thou continu'st such, owe to thy self,
That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost


For no man lives, who always happy is.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


There is a restless endeavour in the mind of man after Happiness. This appetite is wrought into the original frame of our nature, and exerts itself in all parts of the creation that are endued with any degree of thought or sense. But, as the human mind is dignified by a more comprehensive faculty than can be found in the inferior animals, it is natural for men not only to have an eye each to his own happiness, but also to endeavour to promote that of others.

GEORGE BERKELEY

The Works of George Berkeley

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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


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

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


Our happiness depends chiefly upon the estimate we form of life, and the efforts we make to bring ourselves into harmony with its laws.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


We are all travelling to one destination--happiness; but none are going by the same road.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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, 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


Happiness is not the end result of attaining success, fame or wealth it is the inner joy you experience when you love your work journey, it's here in present moment when you fall in love with the process.

ANKIT SHENDE

Happiness Is Not For Sale